Pope Benedict XVI Rehabilitates Holocaust Denier - Update

On Saturday I posted about Pope Benedict XVI un-excommunication of one of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s far right appointees, Briton Richard Williamson (pictured at left), who is denies that the Holocaust occurred and/or that there were no Nazi gas chambers and that at worse only 300,000 Jews perished. It now turns out that those views are only a few of Bishop Williamson's views that ought to be beyond the pale for any truly Christian Pope. Jim Burroway at Box Turtle Bulletin has even more shocking information on this man whom has now apparently been embraced by former Hitler Youth, Benedict XVI. This event, plus many, many more previously recounted in prior posts on this blog beg the question of why ANYONE gives credence, deference or respect to Benedict XVI and his unholy minions at the Vatican. Here are some highlights from Jim's story:

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With Pope Benedict XVI saying such outrageous things as describing same-sex marriage as an “obstacle on the road to peace,” or opposing the decriminalization of homosexuality worldwide — including in countries that carry the death penalty even though the Vatican is itself opposed to the death penalty — it’s hard to imagine him surprising us much. And yet, he manages not merely to surprise, but astonish:

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The Pope has lifted the excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church of four bishops appointed by a breakaway archbishop more than 20 years ago. One of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s appointees, Briton Richard Williamson, outraged Jews by saying the Nazi gas chambers did not exist.

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It turns out that Williamson is a fan of a lot of remarkable anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. In a September 2002 newsletter, Williamson charges that “Judeo-Masonry is known to have been envisaging three World Wars to achieve its unified global domination. . .

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Williamson’s newsletters are a treasure-trove of paranoia, nutty conspiracies and general all-around lunacy. Williamson argues that women should not wear trousers and that “almost no girl should go to any university” because doing so contributes to the “the unwomaning of woman.” He blames modernism for causing the Rwandan massacre, he describes pluralism as the major threat to the Faith and salvation of Catholics today, and he decries religious liberty as a substitute religion. He has even criticized the movie The Sound of Music because of how it portrays those “nasty Nazis” and elevates “self-centered” romantic love. His views on gay people, engaging in a sin “crying to Heaven for vengeance,” are all too predictable:

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In fact the sin [of homosexuality] is so unnatural that Mother Church ranks it alongside murder, defrauding the worker of his just wage, and oppression of the widow or orphan, as one of the four sins "crying to Heaven for vengeance". However, God did not wait for the founding of the Catholic Church to instill in men the horror of this sin, but he implanted in the human nature of all of us, unless or until we corrupt it, an instinct of violent repugnance for this particular sin, comparable to our instinctive repugnance for other misuses of our human frame, such as coprophagy.

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Take a good look at Bishop Williamson and come to terms with just how horrible and nasty Catholicism is becoming under the Nazi Pope. Oh, and by the way, Benedict XVI nonetheless has the insufferable gall to criticize Barack Obama:

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ROME (AFP) - A senior Vatican official on Saturday attacked US President Barack Obama for "arrogance" for overturning a ban on state funding for family-planning groups that carry out or facilitate abortions overseas.

Nazi Pope Rehabilitates Holocaust Denier

Former Hitler Youth and World War II German army member, Nazi Pope Benedict XVI has yet again shown that he is beyond merely insensitive towards Jews in particular in this instance. As regular readers know, I hold Benedict XVI in great disdain - contempt might be a better word, in fact - and view him as a fraud and co-conspirator in the sex abuse scandal cover up. Now, the sinister head of the Roman Catholic Church has rehabilitated traditionalist Bishop Richard Williamson who has made statements denying that gas chambers existed under the Nazi regime and who has claimed that at most 300,000 Jews perished. Here are some highlights from a New York Times article:

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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict Saturday rehabilitated a traditionalist bishop who denies the Holocaust, despite warnings from Jewish leaders that it would seriously harm Catholic-Jewish relations and foment anti-Semitism. The Vatican said the pope issued a decree lifting the excommunication of four traditionalist bishops who were thrown out of the Roman Catholic Church in 1988 for being ordained without Vatican permission. The four bishops lead the ultra-conservative Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), . . .

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One of the four bishops, the British-born Richard Williamson, has made a number of statements denying the full extent of the Nazi Holocaust of European Jews, as accepted by mainstream historians. In comments to Swedish television broadcast Wednesday, he said "I believe there were no gas chambers" and only up to 300,000 Jews perished in Nazi concentration camps, instead of 6 million. . . . Williamson said: "I believe that the historical evidence is hugely against 6 million having been deliberately gassed in gas chambers as a deliberate policy of Adolf Hitler."

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Asked about Williamson's comments, chief Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said they were "totally extraneous" to the lifting of the excommunications. "This act regards the lifting of the excommunications, period," Lombardi told reporters. "It has nothing to do with the personal opinions of a person, which are open to criticism, but are not pertinent to this decree."

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"For any Catholic clergy to embrace the anti-Semitic Holocaust denier is obscene," said Abe Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League in the United States. "It would be an insult to Catholic-Jewish relations and the memory of the millions of Jews who perished because they were Jews."