Person: Marcel Lefebvre

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Hard times provide fertile ground for conspiracies and witch-hunts

SO the Vatican has rejected Bishop Richard Williamson’s carefully worded half-apology for his remarks about the Holocaust. About time, too. He only said sorry for the “distress caused” but there is no sign he has revised his view that the gas chambers at Auschwitz were a Jewish invention. Williamson hasn’t had a change of heart; that much is clear.

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Holocaust row bishop returns to the UK

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'No holocaust' bishop kicked out of Argentina

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Katrina row priest asks Pope not to promote him to bishop

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Israel's top rabbis sever links to Vatican

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Forgiveness sought for Holocaust-denying bishop

Pope to loosen Latin Mass restrictions

A Vatican official has confirmed that Pope Benedict XVI plans to loosen restrictions on celebrating the old Latin Mass, reviving a rite that was essentially swept away by the revolutionary reforms of the Second Vatican Council.

Fri, 18 May, 2007

Pope 'planning to loosen Latin Mass restrictions'

In a concession to ultraconservatives, Pope Benedict XVI plans to loosen restrictions on the old Latin Mass, used by the Roman Catholic Church for centuries until the modernising reforms of the 1960s, a Vatican official said.

Thu, 12 Oct, 2006

Pope meets excommunicated Archbishop to heal divide

The Pope met the head of the ultraconservative movement founded by the excommunicated Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre today amid a renewed push to bring the “schismatic” group back into Rome’s fold.

Mon, 29 Aug, 2005