Catholic Bishop Richard Williamson

Indeed, there are some high profile examples of this; one would be the holocaust denying, bampot 'Bishop' Richard Williamson from the canonically irregular 'SSPX Resistance'. Williamson is typical of a cleric who made a journey from Anglicanism, straight into traditionalism. As such, has never spent any ...

Back in 2009, after Pope Benedict XVI wrote a letter to the bishops of the world apologizing for lifting the excommunication of four bishops, members of the traditionalist Society of Pius X, particularly Holocaust-denier Bishop Richard Williamson, who's been excommunicated again for illicitly ordaining a ...

An ultra-conservative Catholic splinter group based in Kent has been accused of welcoming priests accused of child abuse. The Society of St Pius X (SSPX) Resistance order is led by convicted holocaust denier 'Bishop' Richard Williamson, who heads the organisation from a property in Broadstairs, South ...

An ultra-conservative Catholic splinter group based in Kent has been accused of welcoming priests accused of child abuse. The Society of St Pius X (SSPX) Resistance order is led by convicted holocaust denier 'Bishop' Richard Williamson, who heads the organisation from a property in Broadstairs, South ...

Clergy accused of sex abuse are finding refuge with a breakaway order run by a traditionalist British priest in Kent. Richard Williamson was automatically excommunicated after he was illicitly ordained as a bishop by the late Marcel Lefebvre of the ultra-conservative Society of St Pius X (SSPX). He was ...

Richard Williamson, who was illicitly ordained as a bishop in 1988 by an ultra-conservative group, the Society of St Pius X (SSPX), and later convicted of ... In 1988, Williamson was one of four SSPX priests ordained as bishops by the SSPX founder, archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, against the orders of Pope ...

Bishop Richard Williamson has been automatically excommunicated along with the priest he illicitly ordained a bishop. Bishop ... Bishop Williamson had been excommunicated in 1988 when he and three other traditionalist bishops were ordained against papal orders by the late French Archbishop Marcel ...

Bishop Richard Williamson is planning to consecrate a new bishop Thursday in Brazil without Pope Francis' consent - a church crime punishable by ... In 1988, the Vatican excommunicated Lefebvre, Williamson and three other bishops after Lefebvre consecrated them without papal consent. In 2009 ...

I believe there were no gas chambers." He added: "I think that 200,000 to 300,000 Jews perished in the Nazi concentration camps but none of them in gas chambers." The Vatican has ordered Bishop Williamson to retract his comments and the Catholic Church in England and Wales has said he must do so ...

Bishop Richard Williamson's denial of the Holocaust has done serious damage to the Catholic Church. In an e-mail and fax ... Today the liberal bishops act as though it were some sort of all-encompassing super-dogma, and they use it as justification for a dictatorship of relativism. This contradicts the texts of ...

Pope Benedict's decision to rescind the excommunication of Bishop Richard Williamson appeared to be the latest in a series of olive branches held out to Roman Catholic traditionalists, who have never come to terms with attempts to modernise the Church. Three other men ordained as bishops at the same ...