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...meeting last week between Pope Benedict XVI and leaders of the global Jewish community served to ease the tension between the two religions, caused by the Pope’s decision to reinstate four previously excommunicated bishops back into the Roman Catholic Church. In particular, the reinstatement of Bishop Richard Williamson has outraged Jewish leaders, who point to his public skepticism of the Holocaust as evidence of anti-Semitism. Many have called for the Pope to re-excommunicate Williamson from the church. While the Pope’s efforts to meet with Jewish leaders in order to explain his decision...
...shameful that Bishop Richard Williamson’s historical errors have become the excuse for others to distort the historical record, ignore basic facts of canon law, and libel the Pope as they go. The true story is straightforward. On July 1, 1988, the Vatican published a decree stating that the four new bishops of the Society of St. Pius X had incurred an automatic excommunication for being consecrated by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre against the will of Pope John Paul II. In response to their numerous requests for the removal of their excommunication, Pope Benedict XVI issued a formal retraction...
...Pope Benedict XVI • Holocaust denial is belatedly condemned...
...more than a doctor and a medical expert to me,” Pope said. “He is an advocate of the proposition that we can save lives, understand interrelations with politics, wealth, and disease...
Anne E. Becker ’83, another faculty member in the department, said that “the wonderful thing about Paul and the Lois Pope award is that his research and work has been able to shine a light on problems that would have otherwise not have come to the attention of people who want to make a difference...