Pope urged to convert Jews and others

[Thom Little]

A leader of an ultra-traditionalist Catholic group that broke with the Vatican said yesterday that Pope Benedict should tell Jews and members of other religions to convert because they are part of "false systems."

Father Franz Schmidberger, a top official of the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), also called on the Pope to invalidate excommunications imposed when its founder, the late French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, ordained bishops without permission.

The SSPX rejects the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. It sticks to the old Latin mass and opposes recognizing the validity of other religions, particularly non-Christians.

"Other religions, as such, are false systems," said Schmidberger, who is the right-hand man of the traditionalists' current head, Bishop Bernard Fellay.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/647370.html

[The Magistrate]

1. Very Few People Will Notice, Sir

This is a quite small schismatic sect....

[Dogmudgeon]

3. As they say in Latin: "Vox Vancer Vancorum"

"The Voice of the Wankers' Wanker". (There was probably a sic in there as well.)

Christianity has managed to trivialize itself into ridiculousness. Even with his sex-law wackiness, JP2 was so popular because he was one of the rare Pontiffs (or is that Pontives ...?) who took the suffering of the masses seriously.

We therefore overlook his pecadillos. On the other hand, Benedict 16 seems to be all about pecadillos.

--p!

[stevietheman]

2. They're all false systems. n/t

n/t

[Raksha]

4. These Pius X/Latin Mass people are a bunch of cultists.

They are schismatics and not part of the regular Catholic church. I'm not Catholic (actually, I'm Jewish), but I've run into a bunch of these wackos on various religion discussion boards I frequent. They are totally marginal and nobody pays any attention to them.

[flordehinojos]

5. the world is full of mad (as in crazy) [and mad as in angry too] and the

catholic seems to have its share of its crazy mad people...angry too.