[reg45]

Question: Is it "Richardson" or "Williamson"? I see both names referred to in the article.

There couldn't possibly be two people that ignorant.

[arderkrag]

Richardson advocates a return to the Middle Ages, with the Inquisition the preferred model of the Catholic relationship to Jews.

Conservative Catholics, this is your in-flight advisory. You need to bail out now, you're headed for a socialist super cell.

[huldah1776]

“Williamson is a Holocaust denier, and has repeatedly said that the gas chambers did not exist and that no more than 300,000 Jews were killed during World War II, mostly of starvation. In addition, Williamson has declared that the Jews are plotting to take over the world, and that the U.S. and Israel were behind 9/11.”

The Pope needs to get this man to go to the holocaust museum or help dig up a mass grave.

[Lukasz]

God bless the Pope!

[oldbill]

This guy’s reinstatement to the Church has nothing to do with his position on the Holocaust, as wrongheaded as he may be.

His excommunication had nothing to do with his Holocast fantasies, but with his conflicts with certain Church doctrine.

Israeli and Jewish press need to knock off playing politics with something that is (1) theological, and (2) none of their business.

[kms61]

how did this cretin become a bishop in the first place?

[beelzepug]

I read this twice. Where does it say his holocaust denial was the reason for his excommunication? Anyone...?

[red irish]

There is a good Q&A article on Reuters about exactly what the Pope is doing. The Pope is trying to heal our church with the means of more of a conservative element. The harm that has been done by the so called spirit of Vatican II has been horrendous. Pope Benedict is NOT going to lead anyone to think the Holocaust did not happen for heaven’s sake. But I would like to ask those who are Jewish why do so many Jews vote for the dems when they clearly have a negative view of Isreal? Do they really trust Obama? Now that would concern me more.

[Pablo64]

Boy is this guy going to be surprised when he departs this world and gets to meet a certain Jewish carpenter face to face. It will be kind of hard to explain or justify his anti Semitism then. I can just imagine what that conversation might sound like.

Seriously, though, it will probably be a very quiet, one-sided conversation, as he will be without excuse (as will we all be in regards to our sins).

[GovernmentShrinker]

This article is short on facts. Will he be recognized as a bishop, or even a priest, in the Roman Catholic Church? Or is he just getting his membership back? It’s also not clear how he got to be a bishop in the first place, if the man who was Pope at the time actively disagreed with the plan for him to become a bishop. If he’s just getting his membership back, fine — it’s reasonable for a church not to treat mental illness as a barrier to membership, no matter how onerous the symptoms. But if this Pope is letting him back in as a still-frocked priest, or as a bishop, that’s appalling. I have a low opinion of the Catholic Church to begin with (promoter of socialism and illegal immigration, enabler of large-scale child molestation, etc), but if the current Pope is willing to let this nut be recognized as a priest in the RC Church, I will downgrade my already low opinion of the Church, and classify it as an outright enemy of civilization.

[Arguendo]

Whether or not Holocaust denial is an excommunicable offense, he should not be allowed to remain a bishop unless the Catholic Church wants people to very reasonably attribute his views to the Catholic Church to some extent.

[Obamageddon]

Here is a segment of an interview with Williamson on the subject of the Holocaust:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6C9BuXe2RM

He seems to take issue with the gas chamber story, not the Holocaust itself.

[the scotsman]

There are times I am very happy and proud my ancestors became Protestant...