“But if the Pope hoped to prevent a split in the Church from widening, without damaging the Vatican’s fragile relations with Jews, he seems not to have reckoned with Bishop Williamson’s incendiary views on the Holocaust.

Bishop Williamson, who was born in Britain, gave an interview to a Swedish television programme last November in which he disputed that six million Jews had died at the hands of the Nazis, and claimed that none had died in gas chambers.

He said: “I believe there were no gas chambers,” and insisted that up to “300,000 Jews perished in Nazi concentration camps but none of them by gas chambers”.
These are not the only eccentric views held by Richard Williamson, whose “illicit” ordination as bishop by the French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1988 led Pope John Paul II to excommunicate him from the Roman Catholic Church. Bishop Williamson has claimed that the United States planned the attacks of 9/11, and has accused Freemasons of conspiring against the Church.

[This sounds pretty familiar!]

He also has controversial attitudes towards women. He is quoted as saying: “A woman can do a good imitation of handling ideas, but then she will not be thinking properly as a woman. Did this lawyeress check her hairdo before coming into court? If she did, she is a distracted lawyer. If she did not, she is one distorted woman.”

[What in Heaven's name is a Lawyeress? Is it something like a Lioness?]

Richard Williamson was born an Anglican, the son of a vicar, in 1940. He went to Winchester College and read literature at Cambridge University, before teaching in Africa and converting to Catholicism in 1971.

He became a member of the Society of St Pius X, which had been founded by Archbishop Lefebvre in 1970 to counter the reforms in the Church made by the Second Vatican Council during the previous decade.

Richard Williamson was a novice at the London Oratory, studied at Lefebvre’s seminary and was ordained a priest in 1976. Archbishop Lefebvre announced in 1988 that he intended to ordain Fr Williamson, and three other priests, as bishops, and did so despite warnings that he would be excommunicated.

[So this fellow can't take any direction; that's obvious.]

The Vatican has said it was unaware of Bishop Williamson’s views about the Holocaust when it decided to cancel his excommunication. But, given that they have not been exactly secret, the explanation seems unlikely to pacify Jewish critics of the decision.

As recently as March last year, Bishop Williamson described as “authentic” the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” which purports to reveal Jewish plots to achieve world domination. The document is considered to be a forgery, which originated in Tsarist Russia.”

[ OK....The guy is an obviously stupid jackass that just got kicked out of ARGENTINA ( 2-24-09)! If this Spiritual-wonder can't cut it in over-seas, he's pretty hopeless. ]

I don’t see where the trouble is. Are you saying he should have supported National Socialism?

“In Cardinal Ratzinger’s Article ‘Freedom and Truth’ there is criticism of National socialism, which was according to Josef Ratzinger apart from Marxism ‘the greatest slave-system of modern history’.”

Lets not for one second deny their tendencies: they hate Jews, plain and simple. They want ‘em gone, because they own everything, etc.

They felt what Hitler did was right, and they’re proud of it (e.g., “The Hitler We Loved And Why” by Zundel).

But then in the next sentence, they say “what are you talking about, it never happened, just a couple hundred” etc.

THIS is why they should be shunned and ridiculed at every single opportunity. These ‘revisionists’ are the lunatic fringe, useless scum. That’s the long-and-short of it.

Evidence for the Holocaust’s existence: First-hand accounts, pictures, letters, survivors, oppressors, etc.

Evidence against: “It just didn’t happen, and any evidence it did is wrong and evil and TEH JOOZ KUNSPEERUHCEE!!1″

Advantage: reality.

My grandfather liberated Belsen. It was a sad scene, but no gas chambers.

Is there any wonder that His Holiness Benedict XVI…..a former member of the Hitlerjugen would lift the excommunication against Bishop Williamson?
Imagine my surprize!!