“Jews are described in SSPX documents as being cursed by God for the sin of deicide” (killing Jesus), the ADL says in an online report.
They are wrong, I submit that it was God’s plan to be sacrificed or else our salvation would not be attained. There is no blame Jews, Romans, and Judas were doing what they were foretold to do to ensure our life.
That’s the Gibsons favorite catholic, isn’t it?
My only question is, did he repent of his sins?If so then he should be allowed a Christian burial.
If not, then let his sins be a testament against him.
There’s a difference between earthy and Heavenly judgements.
This applies to all of us sinners
The Jews didn’t kill Jesus. Syrian mercenaries in the Roman army pounded the nails and erected the cross.
“A Christian who has been baptized and who has received the sacraments of the Confession and the Eucharist, regardless of what have been his crimes and sins, as he dies reconciling with God and with the Church has the right to have a Holy Mass celebrated at his funeral,” the group said in a statement.
I agree with the SSPX here. If he reconciled with God and the Church, then he has a RIGHT to the funeral.
The ADL from time to time identifies some real stinkers, like this one. Unfortunately it has the value of crying wolf because it can be pretty thin skinned. That group is a caution about what Catholicism looks like when you take the Christianity out of it.
I seem to recall, that there was a massacre in retaliation for an ambush in a city street by Italian Communist Guerrillas? The Nazi’s were known for their retaliation due to guerrilla activities. Italy was occupied by the Germans after the Italians surrendered. There were still Italian forces in Italy that supported the Germans. The Germans didn’t see the Italians as an enemy. The Italian Communists wanted to play soldiers, and the end result was they were rounded up. The Hague convention wasn’t vague on the treatment of Guerrillas. Like any war, no one wants to see their soldiers in their command killed by enemy partisans, lose a couple of buddies through partisan actions and bad things come out of it. My Lai was a good American example. War is truly hell, and not everyone is able to come out of it with clean hands.
One of Benedict's few mistakes -- he should have stood firm rather than made wishy-washy concessions.
Would SSPX have given Ted Kennedy a Catholic funeral? Serious question. I think highly of the SSPX and what they have done to preserve the Faith.
I won’t begrudge any man, even a Nazi, hope of reconciling his actions here on Earth with G-d.