Israel's top rabbis sever links to Vatican

Israel’s highest Jewish body severed ties with the Vatican today in protest at the pope’s decision to reinstate a bishop who publicly denied millions of Jews were killed during the Holocaust.

Israel's top rabbis sever links to Vatican

Israel’s highest Jewish body severed ties with the Vatican today in protest at the pope’s decision to reinstate a bishop who publicly denied millions of Jews were killed during the Holocaust.

Briton Richard Williamson and three other bishops were excommunicated 20 years ago after right-wing Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre consecrated them without papal consent.

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