SSPX to discipline Bishop Williamson
from the Mittelbayerische Zeitung
Holocaust denier Williamson threatened with consequences
Bishop Fellay is to announce possible sanctions against Richard Williamson in the coming days. "Yes. I'm already working on this," he said on Sunday outside of the chapel where Mass was being said in Zaitzkofen (Regensburg area), where the Society of St Pius maintains a seminar for priests. There the Lefebvre Bishop Richard Williamson apparently also gave the controversial television interview in which he denied the Holocaust of six million Jews. The Regensburg prosecutor is investigating whether a case of race hatred can be brought.
Fellay on Sunday gave no concrete indications of the implications of the Holocaust denial will have for Williamson in the Society of St Pius. Fellay would not confirm a possible resignation or an official withdrawal. "This is perhaps too much to say, but I do not see how Bishop Williamson now can exercise his office of bishop in many countries." Apparently, however, in any case, a strong reduction of the work of Williamson is being considered.
Lefebvre Bishop Fellay was disappointed that Williamson last Friday, in the midst of worldwide uproar, had regrets over his interview, but had withdrawn nothing substantive. "You see the situation in which we are. From this you can see that we are disappointed, " he said. Before the interview, he had known nothing of the anti-Semitic attitude of the British bishop. "As he did now, he has never spoken." He had been aware that Williamson was given to "extravagant thought" on various topics. "I had, so to speak, to attribute that “to the fact that he is British."
Anti-Semitism was always in the Society an isolated case. "In each group there are always people on the fringes." Wounds had been newly torn open with Williamson’s statement. "I apologise to those who have been hurt by this and especially the Jewish people."
Holocaust denier Williamson threatened with consequences
Bishop Fellay is to announce possible sanctions against Richard Williamson in the coming days. "Yes. I'm already working on this," he said on Sunday outside of the chapel where Mass was being said in Zaitzkofen (Regensburg area), where the Society of St Pius maintains a seminar for priests. There the Lefebvre Bishop Richard Williamson apparently also gave the controversial television interview in which he denied the Holocaust of six million Jews. The Regensburg prosecutor is investigating whether a case of race hatred can be brought.
Fellay on Sunday gave no concrete indications of the implications of the Holocaust denial will have for Williamson in the Society of St Pius. Fellay would not confirm a possible resignation or an official withdrawal. "This is perhaps too much to say, but I do not see how Bishop Williamson now can exercise his office of bishop in many countries." Apparently, however, in any case, a strong reduction of the work of Williamson is being considered.
Lefebvre Bishop Fellay was disappointed that Williamson last Friday, in the midst of worldwide uproar, had regrets over his interview, but had withdrawn nothing substantive. "You see the situation in which we are. From this you can see that we are disappointed, " he said. Before the interview, he had known nothing of the anti-Semitic attitude of the British bishop. "As he did now, he has never spoken." He had been aware that Williamson was given to "extravagant thought" on various topics. "I had, so to speak, to attribute that “to the fact that he is British."
Anti-Semitism was always in the Society an isolated case. "In each group there are always people on the fringes." Wounds had been newly torn open with Williamson’s statement. "I apologise to those who have been hurt by this and especially the Jewish people."
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Comments
Yes, Bishop Williamson should avoid political discussions and confine himself to speaking about matters of the Faith, including the matter of bringing non-believers (Jews, Muslims, etc.) into the true Church. And, yes, he has been imprudent. But enough is enough already. And if there are plans afoot to make the man grovel before "world opinion" then that would be worse than any remarks he may have made.
Let's please now start to forgive...and forget.
You make it sound like his questioning the numbers of those killed in the holocaust is a trifling matter. No, he didn't say he thought only 5.98m were killed rather than 6m, he said 300-400 thousand! So what of the poor souls of those 5.6 MILLION and their families who died? Oh well, we can forget about them. MILLIONS of lives brought to a shuddering halt in the most evil barbaric manner. No big deal! Minimize their deaths! It happened a long time ago anyway and a thoroughly discredited "historian" questioned the numbers so we ought to go with what he said. Similarly with the method used to kill them. Lets just forget that these starved already-half-dead men women and children were clawing up clumps of concrete in desperation as they died together. We're just talking about innocent people here, mass genocide, heinous crimes against humanity. No big deal!
"Cartwheeling" to the Jews indeed. You make it sound like theirs and the rest of the civilized world's outrage is somehow bad and surprising! If people are rushing to side with the Jews they deserve it. If Williamson had said of the people of Rwanada, "Oh dear interviewer, are you so ignorant? Only a few hundred innocents really died in Rwanda in 1994 and none of the victims were hacked limb from limb in front of their own family members but died much more "humanely" don't you know," there would be just the same outrage and "cartwheeling", as you call it, to Rwanadans. And rightly so. You see, normal people have an ounce of compassion about them. To them, minimizing or denying almost unimaginable atrocities committed by man against man, especially on this monumental scale, strikes at the heart and they rush to stand firm with the victims. The only people this sort of thing DOESN'T affect are typically psychopaths or those who sympathise with the views and sentiments of the exterminators. Which one are you?
We are ants compared to the Almighty God.
He is in charge and we should just shut our pieholes and pray for our Holy Father that he is given the strength to fight the wolves at the gate.
God is in charge.
Let all of us who love the Church be unified.
God bless you
B. Williamson himself apologized for the imprudence of his words http://dinoscopus.blogspot.com/2009/01/letter.html
B. Williamson is not the SSPX just as the SSPX is not the Church. To blast the whole SSPX for his remarks is ignorant and absurd. And lastly, even if the SSPX is still suspended, B. Williamson is still a bishop of the Catholic Church and should be shown the respect due to his office.
http://truthisbeauty.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/the-crucifixion-of-bishop-williamson/