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Vatican: Bishop must recant Holocaust denial

Vatican: Bishop must recant Holocaust denial

VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican has demanded that a bishop who denied the Holocaust must recant his position before being fully readmitted into the Roman Catholic Church. The Vatican also said in a statement Wednesday that Pope Benedict XVI didn't know about Bishop Richard Williamson's views when he agreed to lift his excommunication and that of three other ultraconservative bishops last week. The statement was issued by the Vatican's Secretariat of State a day after the German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged the pope to make a clearer rejection of Holocaust denials. read more

NECN | February 4, 2009Watch more videos from NECN

Tags:. .ultraconservative. .williamson. .denials. .xvi. .readmitted

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