The Vatican today rejected an apology from Holocaust row Bishop Richard Williamson saying it was not enough to re-admit him to the church.

An Austrian priest who created a controversy by suggesting that God punished New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina because of the city’s sins said he will ask the Pope to rescind his promotion.

An ultraconservative society recently rehabilitated by Pope Benedict XVI silenced one of its bishops today and distanced itself from his claim that no Jews were gassed during the Second World War.