Pope says Williamson was "never Catholic in the proper sense"
Jewish group urges pope to ban Holocaust denier | Reuters:
"In a book due out next week, Benedict says he would not have lifted the 22-year excommunication ban on Williamson if he had known of his far-right views. The pope said the Vatican's poor communications in that row was a 'total meltdown.'
'Holocaust survivors call on Pope Benedict to categorically assert moral authority and reinstate the excommunication of Bishop Williamson which was lifted last year,' Elan Steinberg, vice president of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, said in a statement.
'Williamson's grotesque comments denigrating the tragedy of the Holocaust are now compounded by his engaging a notorious right-wing extremist as his lawyer,' he said."
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"Benedict said in a new book, Light of the World, that Williamson was "never Catholic in the proper sense" because he converted from Anglicanism to the SSPX. "That means that he has never lived in the great Church" under papal authority, he said."
"In a book due out next week, Benedict says he would not have lifted the 22-year excommunication ban on Williamson if he had known of his far-right views. The pope said the Vatican's poor communications in that row was a 'total meltdown.'
'Holocaust survivors call on Pope Benedict to categorically assert moral authority and reinstate the excommunication of Bishop Williamson which was lifted last year,' Elan Steinberg, vice president of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, said in a statement.
'Williamson's grotesque comments denigrating the tragedy of the Holocaust are now compounded by his engaging a notorious right-wing extremist as his lawyer,' he said."
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"Benedict said in a new book, Light of the World, that Williamson was "never Catholic in the proper sense" because he converted from Anglicanism to the SSPX. "That means that he has never lived in the great Church" under papal authority, he said."
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"Williamson, originally an Anglican, was received into the Catholic Church in 1971.[5][8] After a few months as a novice at the Brompton Oratory, Williamson left.[6]"
OOPS!
In many ways, Williamson remains ahead of the game in all of this. What the World is waiting for is for enough Americans to catch up. The tea party movement, for example, has elements who share Williamson's core political perspective but there is not enough to control the movement or make a breakthrough into the mainstream. They are stuck therefore with Palin who will be just be Dubya III after Obama's Dubya II.
In conclusion, this book by the Pope is yet further proof (if any were needed) that the entire Vatican II project plus the 'reform of the reform' is a failure. We are now at the mercy of seismic secular events and our future will be dependent on how they unfold. We have nothing to offer the public square despite what the Holy Father says.