by RAY FLEMING
FOR an institution that claims the adherence of hundreds of millions around the world the Roman Catholic Church, and more specifically the Vatican, often displays worrying unworldliness. A few days ago the Pope announced that the expulsion some years ago of the ultra-conservative Society of St Pius had been revoked so that its members could return to the mainstream of the Church. However, this apparently unifying gesture by the Pope caused global outrage because one leading member of the Society, Bishop Richard Williamson, a Briton, had only recently given an interview in which he denied that there had ever been concentration camps with gas chambers at the time of the Nazi regime; further inquiry showed that Bishop Williamson has a record of Holocaust-denial.
DID THE POPE KNOW?
09/02/2013 00:00
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