Saturday, February 7, 2009
So-called bishop Richard Williamson - Heretic?
“…Bishop Richard Williamson of the ultra-conservative Society of St. Pius X told Germany's Der Spiegel magazine that based on research he did in the 1980s, he became convinced of his views about the Holocaust, which historians say resulted in the deaths of six million Jews.
Williamson is quoted by Der Spiegel as saying he would re-examine "everything again and look at the evidence." However, he said he won't be visiting the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
"Since I see that there are many honest and intelligent people who think differently, I must look again at the historical evidence," the British bishop was quoted as saying.
"It is about historical evidence, not about emotions," he added, according to the report.
"And if I find this evidence, I will correct myself. But that will take time."…
("Holocaust-denying bishop promises to review evidence" CBC.Com Feb.7,2009)
In the worst sort of Cafeteria Catholicism, so-called bishop Richard Williamson is taking his good old pedantic time in filing his nails and telling the Pope to chill while he reviews his beliefs on the Shoah or Jewish Holocaust.
He refuses to go to Auschwitz. There are living witnesses and he wants to drag out his old hate magazines and books to review his views that do not reflect reality or the modern age.
I feel sorry for this man who in his closed minded way thinks that Pius XII is still Pope and the Holocaust can be swept under the rug of Catholic, Christian Europe.
I read once in a book by the Traditionalist and ex-Jesuit Malachi Martin how Pius XII in the grand tradition of obedience to the Pope used to insist that bishops and cardinals get down on their hands and knees and kiss his foot in submission to his grand role as Head of the Roman Catholic Church.
If the traditionalists, sedevacantists insist that Pius XII was a real pope, what is Benedict XVI ? If you accept release from excommunication, it was by order of the Pope. Why aren’t you groveling before the Bishop of Rome and recanting your gloriously ignorant view of history???
If this were 70 A.D., 70 C.E. and Jerusalem was in ashes and thousands of Jews were in chains, would bishop Williamson if he were an early Christian scholar, would he write a gospel based on eyewitnesses to Christ or would he pull out his research, his scrolls and review what this Jew Jesus supposedly said or did. Then pick and choose. Probably!
It was the Jews in chains that built the Coliseum in Rome and brought Judaism and early Christianity to Rome in a big way. No Jews. No Jesus. No Christianity.
Jesus was real. Jesus was a Jew. Jesus’ first mission was to the Jews.
The secondary mission to the gentiles came later under the Apostle Paul and other gentiles. What came later after Jerusalem is less Jesus and more strange than it was human - kind of like you Richard Williamson.
I believe that this recent disgraceful episode is ordained by God to expose this so-called bishop's belief system, to bring it out of the shadows of ignorance and into the light of day and reason.
Get real. Get a life. Get a soul!
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I have read some recent stories coming out of the vatican in support of the current pope that go like this..This initial reach to the Williamson group is only a first step that opens the lines of communication that may lead to further reductions in sanctions,etc. depending on how the process evolves. Is this an attempted shielding of his highness from the bright lights of the world? Williamson appears to be a real psycho so why even open the door? Bewildering logic if any at all!
I know I am far too judgemental in this. I believe that you are correct Dave - only problem is that these days, anything you say or write for decades is immediately available in the Global forum. The Pope was sloppy, perhaps not arrogant, in his one step forward and now three steps back dealings with Williamson and SSPX.
...also on your point of "psycho" -Knuckleheads in high levels of the curia has nothing new. One has only to read the Andrew Greeley fiction/crime novel of “The Bishop and the missing L Train” to see that trying to kick a loser bishop back to Rome to mess up more lives in Divorce/Annulment court at the Vatican is a challenge even for the great Father “Blackie Ryan” in the Chicago Cardinal’s office.
Looks like they have thrown him out of the seminary he was hiding out at in Argentina. Beginning of the end for this guy. God does work in mysterious ways.
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