A traditionalist Catholic bishop whose denial of the Holocaust created a scandal when Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated him has ...
Richard Williamson, Catholic Bishop Whose Denial of Holocaust Embarrassed Pope Benedict XVI, Dies ROME (AP ... in 1969 in opposition to the Second Vatican Council. Vatican II was the series ...
In 1988, the Vatican excommunicated Lefebvre, Williamson and the other bishops, because they were consecrated without papal consent. First as cardinal and then as pope, Benedict worked to heal the ...
FILE - Bishop Richard Williamson, foreground left, is escorted out of Heathrow airport by police and security officers after arriving on a flight from Argentina, in London, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009.
Following Benedict XVI’s departure in 2013 ... conflict and financial mismanagement. Pope Francis writes that the reform of the Vatican bureaucracy, particularly the effort to impose ...
Rome — Pope Francis fell Thursday and hurt his right arm, the Vatican said, just weeks after another apparent fall resulted in a bad bruise on his chin. Francis didn't break his arm, but a sling ...
ROME (AP) — Richard Williamson, an ultra-traditionalist Catholic bishop whose denial of the Holocaust created a scandal in 2009 when Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated him and other members of his ...