Latest update: 24/01/2009 

- Benedict XVI - Holocaust


Pope may cancel rehabiliation of revisionist bishop
Pope may cancel rehabiliation of revisionist bishop
Pope Benedict XVI may reconsider his decision to rehabilitate four excommunicated bishops from the Society of Saint Pius X after outrage at the Holocaust-denying statements made by one of them, British-born Richard Williamson.

REUTERS - Jewish leaders on Friday urged Pope Benedict not to rehabilitate a traditionalist bishop who denies the Holocaust, saying it would foment anti-Semitism and open a deep wound in Christian-Jewish relations.