On 21 January, Pope Benedict lifted the excommunication from four Bishops of the Society of Pius X. Among them is the controversial Bishop Richard Williamson.
Bishop Williamson has not only denied that Jews were gassed by the Nazis in the infamous concentration camps. He has also repeatedly expressed totally unaceptable views about women, reflecting the age-old prejudices that unfortunately beset the thinking of Church leaders in the past. His statements have recently been removed from SSPX sites but we have been able to recover some. The original links to these letters were appended to an article by John Allen in the National Catholic Reporter on January 26th, 'Lefebvre Movement: long troubled history with Judaism.'
