Holocaust-denying bishop threatened with expulsion

Source: AP

VATICAN CITY -- A Catholic bishop who denied the Holocaust is facing expulsion from his traditionalist order for hiring a lawyer linked to the neo-Nazi movement. The Society of St. Pius X said it ordered Bishop Richard Williamson to fire the lawyer, who was to represent him in an appeal next week of a German incitement conviction for saying in a TV interview that he didn't believe Jews were gassed during World War II.

The interview aired the same day Pope Benedict XVI lifted Williamson's excommunication, unleashing a torrent of criticism and threatening the Vatican's relations with Jews.

The Regensburg, Germany court where Williamson is appealing his conviction told the DAPD news agency that he would be represented by Wolfram Nahrath, who has defended neo-Nazis in the past.

The Network Against Nazis group says Nahrath is a former leader of a German neo-Nazi group known as the Wiking-Jugend, or Viking Youth, and says he is currently active in another far-right extremist youth group.

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Note that Bennie lifted his excommunication.

I really dislike this 'the Pope is a Nazi' meme. He was born in Germany in 1927. Hitler Youth membership was mandatory for boys his age, was was military service later in the war. As devout Catholics, his family was not a fan of the Nazis for religious reasons. According to what I've seen, he was not very happy to be in the Hitler Youth and deserted his post at the end of the war. He was a 'Nazi' only in the sense that he lived in Nazi Germany and joined the aforementioned organizations in compliance with the laws of the time.

I don't care for the Papacy or the current Pope. But I limit my criticisms to what he is responsible for.

Williamson isn't just a Holocaust denier. He has promoted the notorious antisemitic fraud "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," claims that Jews are secretly conspiring to run the world, and even weirdly objected to the film "The Sound of Music" because, he said, it glorified "selfish" romantic love and it made the Nazis look "nasty."

He was excommunicated in 1988, not for his antisemitism or his rants against gays but for being consecrated as a bishop by schismatic Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, an opponent of the Vatican II reforms. Last year he and three other schismatic bishops were reinstated despite his continuing vocal Holocaust denial and other offenses on the grounds that while such things made Williamson inter alia a "liar," they did not make him a "heretic," and hence were not grounds for continuing his excommunication

Like I said, that's an action he's fully responsible for as an adult church official. Joining the Hitler youth as an adolescent in accordance with the law -- not so much.

Holocaust denying is asinine.

has been around so long can make so many glaring mistakes. This guy should have been de-frocked before he ever wore the mitre!

As I posted elsewhere, he is a general all-round antisemite who has endorsed the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. He also far-RW in other ways; e.g. racist, religiously bigoted, and intensely sexist; has even said that women should not wear trousers or shorts, and more viciously that they should not go to universities (Taliban, anyone?). He criticized the late Pope John Paul II for being too liberal and for apologizing for past sins of the Catholic church. He has even implied that killing heretics in the past was perfectly OK and godly.

Here are a few choice gems from his own writings, available on the sspx website@


'The Pope prayed here for the "firm knowledge that truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself". These words clearly suggest the false liberal principle that force used in the defence of truth is always wrong. On the contrary St. Louis of France, speaking asking, said that in dealing with a heretic, you argue, argue, argue with him but if he remains obstinate, you run him through with a sword. This is because there is only one Heaven and only one Truth by which to get to that Heaven, so heretics who insist on corrupting that Truth are criminals murdering the eternal life of souls, whereas by comparison even serial murderers in this life are merely shortening the brief life of bodies here below. There is no comparison.'




'Ten yeas ago I was innocently asked in Canada whether women should wear trousers. Some ten weeks ago, also in Canada, I was asked whether a girl should go to a conservative Novus Ordo university. The answer now to the second question may be as stormy as the answer to the first:- because of all kinds of natural reasons, almost no girl should go to any university!

The deep-down reason is the same as for the wrongness of women's trousers: the unwomaning of woman. The deep-down cause in both cases is that Revolutionary man has betrayed modem woman; since she is not respected and loved for being a woman, she tries to make herself a man. Since modem man does not want her to do what God meant her to do, namely to have children, she takes her revenge by invading all kinds of things that man is meant to do. What else was to be expected? Modem man has only himself to blame.

In fact, only in modern times have women dreamt of going to university, but the idea has now become so normal that even Catholics, whose Faith guards Nature, may have difficulty in seeing the problem. However, here is a pointer in the direction of normalcy: any Catholic with the least respect for Tradition recognizes that women should not be priests - can he deny that if few women went to university, almost none would wish to be priests? Alas, women going to university is part of the whole massive onslaught on God's Nature which characterizes our times. That girls should not be in universities flows from the nature of universities and from the nature of girls: true universities are for ideas, ideas are not for true girls, so true universities are not for true girls.'


I am ashamed to have to say that he is British by origin!

As in "Novus Ordo Seclorum" ("a new order of the ages", which appears on the Great Seal of the U.S., right below the eye and pyramid)? :timfoilhat:

Ew.