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Published Date: 12 March 2009
POPE Benedict has written an "anguished" letter to Church leaders admitting that the case of a Holocaust-denying bishop was mishandled and warning the Church risked "devouring itself" with internal squabbles.
In the letter, which the Vatican will release today, the Pope also says he was pained by Catholics' criticism of him.

In January he lifted the excommunication of the British-born bishop, Richard Williamson, to try to heal a 20-year-old schism that began when he was thrown out of the Church for being ordained without Vatican permission.

Mr Williamson had said in an interview that he believed there were no gas chambers and that no more than 300,000 Jews died in Nazi concentration camps.



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  • Last Updated: 12 March 2009 9:37 AM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Roman Catholic church
 
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Conan,

Moffat 12/03/2009 00:33:34
I have no idea why any intelligent (or stupid) person could arrive at a point in their review of THE FACTS of WW2 and conclude that there was no 'Holocaust'.

Anyway, regadless of that ... in a democracy SURELY IT IS WRONG to persecute ANYONE for their believes that amount to nothing nore than their misguided opinion and/or misunderstanding of the facts?

Society at large will take care of that, be it the man in the street, or the employer.

In this case, if this 'holy man' is too stupid to understand what happened in WW2 he certainly too stupid to be a church leader.

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Maximus,

Roberton 12/03/2009 08:42:32
#2, “If the criticism caused Joe to have pain, perhaps he forgot to take the infallibity tablets.”

The Church’s teaching of infallibility doesn’t apply to everything the pope says or does – in fact there have only been two documents issued by the papacy that have been declared as infallible.

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