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File: In this May 28, 2006 photo, then-pope Benedict XVI walks through the gate of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher, File)
December 31, 2022, 12:19 pm
Former pope Benedict XVI, the first pontiff to resign in 600 years, dies at 95
Catholic leader who spectacularly stepped down in 2013, dies at Vatican; former member of Hitler Youth decried horrors of Holocaust but pushed for beatification of Pope Pius XII
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Bishop Richard Williamson, second from left in foreground, is escorted out of Heathrow airport by police and security officers after arriving on a flight from Argentina, in London, Feb. 25, 2009 (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
January 31, 2019, 3:32 pm
European court backs Germany on British bishop’s Holocaust denial conviction
Defense lawyers said Richard Williamson was innocent because his comment denying Nazi use of gas chambers aired on Swedish TV, where Holocaust denial is not illegal
By AFP
Bishop Richard Williamson at a confirmation ceremony in 1991. (photo credit: CC BY, Jim, the Photographer, Flickr)
June 12, 2014, 1:03 am
Holocaust-denying bishop has Australia visa canceled
Richard Williamson, who called Jews ‘enemies of Christ,’ says up to 300,000 died in Shoah, not in gas chambers
By JTA
January 16, 2013, 9:20 pm
German court convicts Holocaust-denying bishop
Richard Williams fined $2,400 for claiming Jews weren’t killed in gas chambers
January 7, 2013, 6:53 pm
Head of radical Catholic sect calls Jews ‘enemies’
Vatican has not responded publicly to remarks by Society of St. Pius X leader
Bishop Richard Williamson at a confirmation ceremony in 1991. (photo credit: CC BY, Jim, the Photographer, Flickr)
October 7, 2012, 3:51 am
Vatican says talks to reconcile with anti-Semitic group ‘dead’
Chief of church doctrine says he is unable to bring Society of St. Pius X into the fold
October 4, 2012, 3:33 pm
German court renews case against Holocaust-denying bishop
A legal technicality last year allowed Richard Williamson to escape punishment for televised ‘gas chambers’ claim
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at a town hall-style meeting in April (photo credit: AP/Jae C. Hong)
From the WebJune 8, 2012, 10:45 pm
Romney aide to Haaretz: After he’s elected, Iran will see there’s a new sheriff in town
Richard Williamson says GOP candidate will make military threats against Tehran credible, arm Syria’s rebels, and visit Israel before going anywhere else
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