One of the post-conciliar religion’s most dramatic contradictions with the Catholic faith is its heterodox and blasphemous treatment of the Church’s relationship with the Jews.
Blasphemous, because it implies that Christ is not the unique and only way to salvation and that the Jews can be saved through their old (fulfilled and therefore redundant) covenant with God.
No wonder that George Weigel’s recent attack on the Society of St. Pius X quickly zoned in on their fidelity to what the Catholic faith has always taught on the subject.
With stunning audacity, Weigel dared to begin his hit piece by asserting that SSPX leadership has declared, “wittingly or not, that it does not share the faith of the Catholic Church.”
Without missing a beat, Weigel immediately focuses on the SSPX statement that “Our Lord Jesus Christ rendered the Old Covenant definitively null and void.” Absurdly, he claims this would have “shocked St. Paul.”
The SSPX’s comment is, of course, not something they dreamt up. Rather, it is centuries old dogma. As the Council of Florence taught, the legal observances of the Old Testament, “after the promulgation of the Gospel, cannot be observed without loss of eternal salvation.”
The traditional theological position has always been that the Mosaic covenant, as a salvific economy, was fulfilled and superseded by Christ. One would have expected that when dealing with a so-called Catholic, this would be a no-brainer, but Weigel is a modernist court jester for the post-conciliar kosher religion.
The Epistle to the Hebrews also unambiguously teaches that Christ is the mediator of a new covenant and that “in speaking of a new covenant, he treats the first as obsolete.” Our Lord Himself established the New Covenant in His Blood and the Fathers and Doctors taught overwhelmingly that the ceremonial law passed away with the coming of Christ.
St. Thomas Aquinas wrote that the Old Law as to its ceremonial precepts was “dead” after the Passion of Christ. Thus, the SSPX’s claim is not a rejection of Scripture but a doubling down on a long-established Catholic interpretation of Scripture.
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