Controversial bishop to 'examine Holocaust evidence'

A British bishop who faces a Vatican demand to recant his denial of the Holocaust said he would examine the evidence of the Nazis’ mass killings, but it “will take time,” a German magazine reported today.

Richard Williamson is one of four bishops from the ultraconservative Society of St Pius X whose excommunication was lifted by the Vatican last month. The decision sparked outrage because Mr Williamson had said in a television interview he did not believe any Jews were gassed during the Holocaust.