By Niels Sorrells Religion News Service BERLIN (RNS) A schismatic British bishop who said he didn't believe the Holocaust claimed 6 million Jews f...
Posted 09.04.2011
By Niels Sorrells Religion News Service BERLIN (RNS) The case of an outspoken schismatic bishop headed back to court on Monday (July 4), with lawy...
GlobalPost | Posted 05.25.2011
BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Faced with ever-more harrowing revelations of child sex abuse by Roman Catholic clergymen, Belgians are turning in record numbers...
Religion News Service | Kevin Eckstrom | Posted 05.25.2011
(RNS) The schismatic bishop who deeply angered Jews and embarrassed the Vatican by publicly denying the Holocaust was ordered to pay a $13,500 fine fo...
AP | VERENA SCHMITT-ROSCHMANN | Posted 05.25.2011
BERLIN — A German court convicted ultraconservative British Bishop Richard Williamson on Friday of denying the Holocaust in a television interview. ...
Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011
It is time to admit that the gay community has a gigantic Pope problem. Under the leadership of Benedict XVI, the Vatican has become an implacable foe of basic rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.
Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 05.25.2011
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not the only one intent on twisting, distorting and ignoring the truth. In America, there are those on the far right who impugn the truth as well.
GlobalPost | Anil Mundra | Posted 05.25.2011
BUENOS AIRES -- When Argentines discovered that they had a Holocaust-denying bishop in their midst, the public outcry was forceful and the governmen...
The Huffington Post | Catherine Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011
Pope Benedict XVI has confirmed that he will travel to holy sites in Israel and the Palestinian Territories from May 11 to May 15, marking only the se...
The Tidings | Cardinal Roger Mahony, Rabbi Gary Greenebaum and Seth Brysk | Posted 05.25.2011
In January, Pope Benedict XVI lifted the excommunication of four bishops of a small ultra-traditionalist group that broke from the Catholic Church ove...
Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 05.25.2011
The Vatican has rejected the apology of Bishop Richard Williamson who has made headlines for his controversial remarks concerning the Holocaust, repor...
The Independent | Jerome Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011
When Bishop Richard Williamson sat down last year in an oak-panelled seminary in the picturesque Bavarian village of Zaitzkoven and agreed to an inter...
AP | ALESSANDRA RIZZO | Posted 05.25.2011
ROME — A British bishop whose denial of the Holocaust embroiled Pope Benedict XVI in controversy has apologized for his remarks, a Catholic news...
AP | JEANNETTE NEUMANN | Posted 05.25.2011
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A British bishop whose denial of the Holocaust embroiled the pope in controversy left Argentina Tuesday after the gove...
AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 05.25.2011
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican said Friday it has formally complained to the Israeli government about a private Israeli TV show that ridiculed Jesus...
New York Times | RACHEL DONADIO and NICHOLAS KULISH | Posted 05.25.2011
ROME -- Close on the heels of the pope's rehabilitation of a group of schismatic bishops, including one who denied the Holocaust, a second scandal has...
Roman R. Kent | Posted 05.25.2011
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called upon the Pope to denounce Holocaust denying Bishop Williamson, but the papers and airwaves were devoid of any statements from any other world leaders.
Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 05.25.2011
It is outrageous that Pope Benedict did not immediately respond to Bishop Williamson's stalling tactics by reinstating the renegade bishop's excommunication.
Rod Lurie | Posted 05.25.2011
It never crossed my mind that I would ever speak or write negatively about the work of a fellow filmmaker. I am sure the makers of The Reader are not deniers. But they are helping those who are.
Elayne Boosler | Posted 05.25.2011
Here's some suggested reading material for Bishop Richard Williamson: Auschwitz For Dummies, Bergen-Belsen for Bishops, The Audacity of Pope, Better Late Than Never Again and more.
The Independent | Andreas Whittam Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
Pope Benedict must have thought he knew exactly what he was doing when, on 21 January, he lifted the excommunication of four bishops, among them a Hol...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
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The Guardian | Kate Connolly in Berlin | Posted 05.25.2011
The cardinal in charge of the Vatican's relations with Jews has admitted that the Pope's decision to rehabilitate an ultra-conservative bishop who den...
The Independent | Tony Paterson in Berlin | Posted 05.25.2011
Germany's four-year love affair with its own Bavarian-born Pope was in tatters yesterday after Chancellor Angela Merkel accused the pontiff of giving ...
Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 05.25.2011
Holocaust denial is a pernicious strain of anti-Semitism, and Pope Benedict's ill-conceived embrace of Bishop Williamson sends a clear message within the Roman Catholic Church.
Posted 09.10.2011