Jewish Council Splits With Vatican Over Holocaust Denials
The Central Council of Jews in Germany has come to an impasse with the Roman Catholic Church after Pope Benedict XVI reintegrated four bishops into the Vatican's fold, including British cleric Richard Williamson, who has taken a revisionist stance on the Holocaust in recent public statements.The Central Council of Jews in Germany has come to an impasse with the Roman Catholic Church after Pope Benedict XVI reintegrated four bishops into the Vatican’s fold, including British cleric Richard Williamson, who has taken a revisionist stance on the Holocaust in recent public statements.
Rock Solid JournalismInternational Herald Tribune:
Williamson said in an interview with Swedish television a week ago that he believed that there were no gas chambers and that no more than 300,000 Jews perished in Nazi concentration camps, rather than the six million widely accepted by historians.
“Under these conditions, there will certainly be no talks between myself and the church for the time being – I stress the words ‘for the time being,’ ” Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Council of Jews, said in the Rheinische Post newspaper. “I would like an outcry in the church against such actions from the pope.”
The Central Council of Jews confirmed her quotes.
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