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The Vatican has upped the ante in the case involving a prominent member of the SSPX who denies the Holocaust: The Vatican demanded Wednesday that a bishop who denied the Holocaust recant his positions before being fully admitted into the Roman Catholic Church. The Vatican also said in a statement that Pope Benedict XVI didn’t…

The U.S. bishops have just released a statement on the SSPX debacle: Statement of Cardinal Francis George, President USCCB Pope Benedict XVI has lifted the personal penalty of excommunication incurred by four schismatic bishops belonging to the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X, founded by the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. This gesture on the part…

The pope, today, on fasting: Pope Benedict XVI says fasting is important for modern Catholics because it helps make them aware of the deprived state in which many people live. Benedict says that through fasting “we make a statement that our brother or sister in need is not a stranger.” The comment released Tuesday by…

Monday, there was still more fallout now from the pope’s decision to lift the excommunications of four SSPX bishops: A leading member of Germany’s Jewish community said Monday that Benedict XVI, the German-born pope and leader of more than a billion Roman Catholics worldwide, was sowing divisions and abetting far-right groups by rehabilitating four ultra-conservative…
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