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The following is from Cardinal O'Malley's blog regarding the lifting of the excommunications of the four SSPX bishops and the remarks of Richard Williamson:
It was tragic that one of the four bishops (whose excommunications were lifted), Bishop Richard Williamson, had made outrageous statements about the Holocaust and about the September 11 attacks on the United States. It certainly raises questions as to the caliber of the leadership that the Society has. Additionally, as terrible as the comments were, it underscores the importance for the Holy Father to have increasing influence over those communities.
We are very sorry that the people in the Jewish community have been so pained and outraged by Bishop Williamson’s statements. I think the Holy Father’s statements and those of Cardinal Walter Kasper, chairman of the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, have been very clear to dissociate the Catholic Church from those kinds of sentiments. I was pleased that the head of the Society of St. Pius X, Bishop Bernard Fellay, also repudiated the statements of Bishop Williamson.
It is very important for us to always remember the Holocaust so that such an atrocity could never take place again. I recall the words of the Holy Father this week: “May the Shoah be for everyone an admonition against oblivion, negation and reductionism, because violence against a single human being is violence against all.”(read the rest of the Cardinal's post)
I do appreciate Cardinal O'Malley's comments concerning the statements made by Bishop Williamson. I just wish that he would have been more inclusive in the following statement:
ReplyDelete"We are very sorry that the people in the Jewish community have been so pained and outraged by Bishop Williamson’s statements."
I think I am not alone in saying that it is not only the Jewish people who have been pained and outraged but the Catholic people as well, indeed, we the people of the Catholic Church.
Williamson’s comments are purely anti-Semite and he is known as an anti-Semite, denying the Holocaust in the modern anti-Semitism cover.
ReplyDeleteHis Excellency should not accept this person, as accepting him means he accepts anti-Semitism
After the long history of Christina-Jewish relationship, this should not happen.
The world outside observe this act, as it is.
Accepting an anti-Semite as a Bishop