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25/02/2009
Holocaust Denying Bishop Arrives Back In UK
A British Roman Catholic bishop at the centre of a row over offensive comments made about the Holocaust has today arrived back in the UK from Argentina.
Richard Williamson, who was living at the St Pius X seminary in Buenos Aires, was asked to leave after he refused to retract his denial of the existence of Nazi gas chambers.
Last week the Argentinian government gave him ten days to leave the country after he reportedly made comments about the Holocaust in a Swedish television interview, which had "deeply shocked the Argentine society, the Jewish people and all of humanity".
It is understood the bishop claimed that historical evidence was "hugely against six million having been deliberately gassed in gas chambers as a deliberate policy of Hitler... I believe there were no gas chambers".
He continued: "I think that about two to three hundred thousand Jews perished in Nazi concentration camps, but none of them in gas chambers."
British-born Williamson arrived at Heathrow Airport yesterday, wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses, dressed in black with his dog collar on.
He was escorted by several police officers through the scrum of waiting press and photographers.
The Vatican has ordered Bishop Williamson to retract his comments and the Catholic Church in England and Wales has said he must do so before he can "enter into full communion with the Church".
He was ordained by renegade French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, which led to his automatic excommunication by the Vatican, more than 20 years ago.
The order was lifted by Pope Benedict XVI - who was severely criticised for the decision - before the comments became public.
(JM/KMcA)
Richard Williamson, who was living at the St Pius X seminary in Buenos Aires, was asked to leave after he refused to retract his denial of the existence of Nazi gas chambers.
Last week the Argentinian government gave him ten days to leave the country after he reportedly made comments about the Holocaust in a Swedish television interview, which had "deeply shocked the Argentine society, the Jewish people and all of humanity".
It is understood the bishop claimed that historical evidence was "hugely against six million having been deliberately gassed in gas chambers as a deliberate policy of Hitler... I believe there were no gas chambers".
He continued: "I think that about two to three hundred thousand Jews perished in Nazi concentration camps, but none of them in gas chambers."
British-born Williamson arrived at Heathrow Airport yesterday, wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses, dressed in black with his dog collar on.
He was escorted by several police officers through the scrum of waiting press and photographers.
The Vatican has ordered Bishop Williamson to retract his comments and the Catholic Church in England and Wales has said he must do so before he can "enter into full communion with the Church".
He was ordained by renegade French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, which led to his automatic excommunication by the Vatican, more than 20 years ago.
The order was lifted by Pope Benedict XVI - who was severely criticised for the decision - before the comments became public.
(JM/KMcA)
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