[Pyro7480]

If anything, I was surprised at your support for a group led by an anti-semite, illicitly appointed bishop.

I ask a question about one commenter's remark, and this translates into support for the SSPX? I don't follow. And Williamson isn't the leader of the SSPX -- Fellay is, and that's the reason why Fellay "legitimately" silenced Williamson.

I know you to be a staunch supporter of traditionalism within the Catholic Church.

I am, but I try to stay from the Jewish issues like the plague. I think there's a tendency to knee-jerk from both those trying to defend the Pope, and from the SSPX crowd. That's a cause of a lot of the problems. We should remember, "In all things, charity."

My apologies again, if there was a misunderstanding.

I'm still not understanding how you got to be asking what you did: I hope, Pyro, that you are not in agreement with their anti-semite teachings. There was no cause for you to be asking me that, other than, perhaps, the fact that I'm "a staunch supporter of traditionalism within the Catholic Church." If that's the case, then you're stereotyping all traditionalists as anti-Semites.

For the record, since there seems to be some doubt on your part, my stance is the same as Pope Pius XI: "Mark well that in the Catholic Mass, Abraham is our Patriarch and forefather. Anti-Semitism is incompatible with the lofty thought which that fact expresses. It is a movement with which we Christians can have nothing to do. No, no, I say to you it is impossible for a Christian to take part in anti-Semitism. It is inadmissible. Through Christ and in Christ we are the spiritual progeny of Abraham. Spiritually, we [Christians] are all Semites."

Interestingly enough, the same Pope Pius XI, in his Act of Consecration of the Human Race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, wrote, "Be Thou King of all those who are still involved in the darkness of idolotry or of Islamism, and refuse not to draw them all into the light and kingdom of God. Turn Thine eyes of mercy towards the children of that race, once Thy chosen people. Of old, they called down upon themselves the Blood of the Savior; may It now descend upon them as a laver of redemption and of life."

So go figure.

[NYer]

Thank you for the quote from Pius XI. It might be interesting to revisit the writings of previous popes from time to time (talking to self and anyone else who shares that view). Abraham is indeed our Patriarch. The other quote is also intriguing ... Of old, they called down upon themselves the Blood of the Savior. I thought Islam began with Mohammed.