SSPX leader deplores Williamson statement on Holocaust

January 26, 2009

The head of the Society of St. Pius X has distanced the traditionalist group from statements by Bishop Richard Williamson questioning the reality of the Holocaust. In an interview with the Swiss journal Le Temps, Bishop Bernard Fellay said that he "deplores the fact that a bishop has given the impression of implicating the Society with a viewpoint that is absolutely not ours." In the same interview Bishop Fellay voiced his confidence that further negotiations with the Holy See will successfully resolve the canonical status of the SSPX. But he also indicated that the traditionalist group will continue to oppose some teachings of Vatican II, saying that "it is true that we reject a part of the Council."

 

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Further information:

• 'Je crois à l’infaillibilité de l’Eglise' (Le Temps)
• ...for continuing coverage of developments regarding the Vatican negotiations with the SSPX (Rorate Caeli)