Ultra-traditionalist says pope should convert Jews

By Philip Pullella

ROME (Reuters) - A leader of an ultra-traditionalist Catholic group that broke with the Vatican said on Saturday 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 1962-1965 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.

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nothing like insulting entire religions to promote peace on earth....

her advisors would have been happy with this bunch.

Are they looking for a perfect site for an auto da fé?

so they are not offically "Catholic" according to the Vatican. They are highly marginalized even though BXVI did speak with their current leader.

These people are so infactuated with the ceremony side of life, in that they excel in rule following they are totally blind to other parts of the broad teachings.

The only SSPX seminary in the US is in southeast Minnesota just outside Winona on the buffs.

More on the SSPX beliefs:
http://www.stas.org/apologetics/index.shtml

http://www.stas.org/whoweare/index.shtml

The rules are quite harsh.

Pope John Paul II described Jews as Christianitys elder brother in faith whose eternal covenant with god has never been revoked.

True Catholics believe that Jews need not follow the path of everyone else to get into heaven.