Bishop Williamson back in court, ordinations in any case

Prozess gegen Williamson, trotzdem Priesterweihen

On Monday, the appeal takes place against the Court of the First Instance sentence of Holocaust denier Richard Williamson, Bishop of the Society of St. Pius X. Two days earlier the Society in Zaitzkofen, where Williamson denied the Holocaust in front of the camera, will ordain four priests - against the express wishes of the Vatican.

On 4 July at 9 clock the appeal will be heard in the District Court in the trial of the member of the Society of St Pius X, Bishop Richard Williamson. He was convicted in April 2010 by the Court of the First Instance of denying the Holocaust in the Zaitzkofen Seminary of the arch-conservative Society. But two days before the trial, the Society will again openly provoke the Vatican, despite the request of the pope to no longer for the moment ordain priests by holding ordinations on 2 July in Zaitzkofen.

The Bishop of Regensburg has already described the most recent ordination as a "provocation". Two days before the renewedcourt proceedings which have caused an international sensation, probably the criticism of Pope Benedict and his efforts to reintegrate the Society into the Catholic Church will flare up again.

Comments

Ferdinand said…
The more traditionalist priests the better for the Church, but the Vatican does not get this. The hierarchy is living in their own version of Catholicism and imposing this version on the new generations, so that now it takes a heroic effort to discover what real Catholicism looks like. The FSSPX is always under attack from the world and the Chruch hierarchy and there are still those who consider the Society's actions a "provocation". A clear example of inverting the roles of victim and criminal. Now the press should investigate the matter in a non-partisan way and realise that Bp. Williamson did not deny the Holocaust but the numbers. He never justified it or said it did not exist. He is just being used as a weapon against the Society and its efforts to keep Tradition alive. Let's pray that they declare him innocent and all this sad affair be over as soon as possible.
Dolorosa said…
But it's okay for them to incite hatred towards Christians in this article, The Churches against Israel:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4090528,00.html

Obviously, the Vatican II ecumenism and Assisi Meetings haven't helped but increase the wrath of God.
jorge calderon said…
pregunto acaso es un gogma el tema del holocausto? creo que esta es una gran oportunidad para este obispo tan cuestionado, pues tendrá que jugarse por Cristo o rendirle pleitecias al mundo. solo la verdad es valida para Dios ¿ya que a Él nadie le puede mentír ni los judios con su fanoso holocuento. por el reinado social de Cristo. jorge
Sixupman said…
This is exactly where the problem began!

Msgr. Lefebvre raised a seminary, with the appropriate approvals, but, because it was a success, the local ordinaries decided to attack Msgr. Lefebvre and the position escalated to that which is currrent.

The relationship between the Zaitkofen ordinations and +Williamson does not exist - he has been visited upon the UK, for our sins.

There exists within SSPX a 'Williamson' element which contained strains of an American over-the-top approach and set themselves up as little gods and demanding a subserviance redolent of the Scottish 'Wee Free' pastors on the basis of their own interpretation of Mother Church - which none have experienced pre-Vatican II.

The alternative to Zaitkofen, et al - Austria, et al? I personally know one bishop, ex rector of a seminary, who espoused non-belief in the ordained priesthood.

We are living in Alice-in-Wonderland times.
Bishop Williamson does not deny any holocaust. His personal opinion about the number of Jews killed during World War Two differs from the symbolic, six million, but that does not make him a holocaust denier
Tracy Hummel said…
Did the Vatican request the SSPX to stop or move the ordinations again? That was done a year or two ago and the Society complied but I haven't heard that they asked for an ongoing deferral of German ordinations or another request.

You really can't trust anything in the media. So many news outlets are just plain sloppy these days. Even the so-called "neo-con" ones like EWTN, which recently reported that the preamble given to the SSPX required them to submit to the "fundamental teachings of Vatican II".