{"id":1126,"date":"2009-01-29T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/01\/sspx-leader-jews-are-a-people-of-deicide.html"},"modified":"2009-01-29T21:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T21:39:00","slug":"sspx-leader-jews-are-a-people-of-deicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/01\/sspx-leader-jews-are-a-people-of-deicide.html","title":{"rendered":"SSPX leader: Jews are &#8220;a people of deicide&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another member of the SSPX has decided to share <a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline3.org\/drupal\/?q=node\/3191\">his thoughts<\/a> about the Holocaust with the world: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>   In the wake of a global furor triggered by Pope Benedict XVI\u2019s decision to lift the excommunication of four traditionalist Catholic bishops, including one who cast doubt on the Holocaust, another leader in the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X has questioned whether the Nazis used gas chambers for anything other than \u201cdisinfection,\u201d and said that people who hold revisionist views on the Holocaust are not anti-Semites.<\/p>\n<p>Fr. Floriano Abrahamowicz, a pastor and spokesperson for the Society of St. Pius X in northeastern Italy, also referred to Jews as \u201ca people of deicide,\u201d referring to the death of Christ, and suggested that the Jewish Holocaust has been \u201cexalted\u201d over what he called \u201cother genocides,\u201d such as the Allied bombing of German cities and the Israeli occupation of the Gaza strip.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Abrahamowicz insisted that the traditionalist movement founded by the late French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre is not \u201canti-Semitic.\u201d Among other things, Abrahamowicz said, he himself has Jewish roots on his father\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p>The comments came in a Jan. 29 interview with the Italian newspaper La Tribuna di Treviso. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> You can read more, and the full translation of his interview, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline3.org\/drupal\/?q=node\/3191\">NCR link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another member of the SSPX has decided to share his thoughts about the Holocaust with the world: In the wake of a global furor triggered by Pope Benedict XVI\u2019s decision to lift the excommunication of four traditionalist Catholic bishops, including one who cast doubt on the Holocaust, another leader in the traditionalist Society of St.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":365,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-r-us","category-ripped-from-the-headlines"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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