Pope Benedict XVI recently lifted the excommunication of four bishops who belong to the Society of St. Pius X. Among these individuals was Bishop Richard Williamson, who denies the Holocaust existed.
Journal News Columnist Gary Stern wrote an interesting article on this, in which he interviewed Father James Masssa, a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn who is executive director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs for the Bishops Conference in Washington, and took a scary look at the beliefs listed on the website of the Society of St. Pius X.
It is clear from Stern's article that statements made on Swedish television by a 68-year-old Englishman (Williamson) have far-reaching effects. Considering there are an estimated 1,412,000 Jewish people living in New York, according to the 2002 Jewish Community Study of New York, and that "Brooklyn has the largest number of Holocaust survivors in America," according to Gideon Taylor, executive vice president of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, it is no wonder that any news of Holocaust denial would not be taken lightly in New York.
Pope Pius XII and the Jews is an interesting resource for headlines relevant to the controversy of how the pope handled Nazi Germany.
Friday, February 13, 2009
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