Holocaust bishop told to admit he was wrong

The ultra-Right British bishop readmitted to the Catholic church despite denying the Holocaust existed was today ordered to formally withdraw the comments.

The Vatican warned Richard Williamson that he would not be fully taken back unless he made the public statement.

It added in a statement that the pope did not know about Bishop Williamson’s views when he agreed to lift his excommunication and that of three other ultraconservative bishops last week.

The statement was issued by the Vatican’s Secretariat of State a day after German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged the pope to make a clearer rejection of Holocaust denials.