{"id":990,"date":"2009-02-27T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/02\/vatican-says-williamson-apology-isnt-enough.html"},"modified":"2009-02-27T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T15:56:00","slug":"vatican-says-williamson-apology-isnt-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/02\/vatican-says-williamson-apology-isnt-enough.html","title":{"rendered":"Vatican says Williamson apology isn’t enough"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Vatican wasn’t impressed<\/a> with the limp olive branch<\/a> offered yesterday by the SSPX’s most notorious bishop: <\/p>\n

The Vatican said Friday that the apology issued by an ultraconservative bishop who denied the Holocaust was not good enough to admit him into the Catholic Church as a clergyman.<\/p>\n

Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi said Bishop Richard Williamson’s statement “doesn’t appear to respect the conditions” the Vatican set out for him.<\/p>\n

In an interview broadcast last month on Swedish state TV, Williamson denied 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust, saying 200,000 or 300,000 were murdered. He said none were gassed.<\/p>\n

Williamson apologized for his remarks on Thursday, saying he would never have made them if he had known “the full harm and hurt to which they would give rise.”<\/p>\n

But he did not say his comments had been erroneous, nor that he no longer believed them.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Germany’s justice minister, Brigitte Zypries, said Germany could issue a European-wide arrest warrant on hate crimes charges for Williamson, because the Swedish TV interview was conducted in Germany.<\/p>\n

State prosecutors in Regensburg, Germany, have already opened a preliminary investigation into whether Williamson broke German laws against Holocaust denial.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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