Holocaust ‘regret’

A BISHOP recently rehabilitated by Pope Benedict XVI expressed regret yesterday to the pontiff for the “distress and problems” he caused by denying the Holocaust.

In a letter to the Vatican, Bishop Richard Williamson, who recently denied in a TV interview that six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, called his remarks “imprudent.”

The letter was posted on Williamson’s personal blog and addressed to Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, who has been dealing with the rehabilitation of Williamson and other renegade bishops who had been excommunicated.