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Holocaust-Denying Bishop Needs 'More Evidence'

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Daisy2/09/2009 6:39:05 am PST

re: #1 Leonidas Hoplite

This guy doesn’t need to be rehabilitated. He needs to be ostracized.

Why? He’s not considered a Bishop by the Church (since he was ordained by religion deemed false - actually schismatic by the RC Church), he’s considered a lay priest - not allowed to perform any of the functions of the priesthood. The Pope, with this move, strongly appears to be dis empowering anti-Semites by neutralizing Williamson and others like him. Last time I looked, anti-Semitic sentiments/actions were on the high rise in Europe. Finally, Catholicism, unlike some other religious persuasions/social institutions, is committed to keeping adherence to forgiveness/mercy, not ostracism. Look to others, for instance the penal system (or certain family systems), to ostracize - one reason so many (not all) inmates come out worse for the time endured.