This is why we can't have nice things

I was born and raised Roman Catholic. I still attend Mass on Sundays, despite my own personal and political beliefs becoming ever more contrasting with the Vatican. In my heart of hearts, I'd like to believe one day that those the Church has officially persecuted in the 20th and 21th century for speaking Truth to Power will be officially recognized; and for those who have been excommunicated, their bannings lifted.

This is not one of those times

The development came even as a new report quoted Williamson as having declared in a 1989 speech that “Jews made up the Holocaust, Protestants get their orders from the devil and the Vatican has sold its soul to liberalism.”

Williamson’s views about the Holocaust created an uproar last month when Pope Benedict XVI lifted his excommunication and that of three other bishops consecrated by the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.

“There was not one Jew killed in the gas chambers. It was all lies, lies, lies,” Williamson said in the 1989 speech at Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes church in Sherbrooke, Canada, according to the newspaper.

In the same speech, the paper said Williamson asserted that “the Jews created the Holocaust so we would prostrate ourselves on our knees before them and approve of their new State of Israel.”

The Daily News reported that the bishop also wrote letters in 2001 and 2002 blaming “Judeo-Masonry” for the two world wars and claiming that Jews were bent on world domination. It did not say to whom the letters were sent.

Take your hate-speech elsewhere, Mr. Williamson. We do not need in. Not Catholics, nor Palestinians, nor the anti-Zionist movement.

I would also be remiss if I didn't point out the person behind this bigot being welcomed with open arms back into the Church. Thank you, Your Holiness (Not in the Least).