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Pope Rehabilitates Holocaust Denier Bishop.

Article from: Israel Faxx Article date: January 26, 2009

By Reuters & IsraelNationalNews.com

Pope Benedict has 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. One of the four bishops, the British-born Richard Williamson, has made a number of ...

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