Predictable, but still kind of amazing the lengths Bill Donohue and the conservative Catholic League will go to defend whatever the church does, hides, and endorses. From a Catholic League press release:
On January 29, nearly 50 Catholic Democratic congressmen sent a letter to Pope Benedict XVI stating their concerns over Bishop Richard Williamson’s comments questioning the historical record on the Holocaust. The bishop belongs to the St. Pius X Society, a group which recently had its excommunication lifted by the pope. The congressmen implored the pope to denounce the bishop’s views.
Catholic League president Bill Donohue spoke to this issue today:
“The congressmen’s letter to the pope smacks of posturing and hypocrisy, and is factually wrong. They begin by saying ‘we are writing to express our deep concerns with your decision to reinstate Bishop Richard Williamson to communion with the Catholic Church….’ The fact is that the pope did not reinstate the bishop to communion with the Church—he merely lifted the excommunication of the group to which he belongs. In order for the group to be fully reinstated, it would have to express its fidelity to the teachings of the Church, as well as the norms of Vatican II. In other words, the letter is based on a false predicate.
In the past, Donohue has attacked the press for reporting on the systematic protection of pedophiles by the Catholic Church, so I guess support of a holocaust denier is okay as well as long as it comes from Vatican City.
Kind of sick, though.
I wanted flying cars, btw. Just as well, though, having those...
“It’s better to deny the Holocaust than be gay”-Bill Donohue
This cat was born about ten centuries too late.
The Pope also promoted to bishop an Austian priest who said that Katrina hit New Orleans because of its decadence and “beautiful whores”. He’s really on a roll.
Predictable, but still kind of amazing the lengths Bill Donohue and the conservative Catholic League will go to defend whatever the church does, hides, and endorses.
Said the Democrat pot to the Catholic kettle.
Republicans. What a lovely bunch.
matt621, you are a moron. Just look at the evil the Republican Party does, the sheer criminality they flaunt. Republicans are criminal scum. Period.
“It’s better to deny the Holocaust than be gay”-Bill Donahue.
In all serious, jr, I bet this is what Donahue actually believes.
I find it hypocritical that Anti Catholics are advocates of freedom of expression yet they are intolerant to anyone who does not agree with them by making insulting remarks. The comment of Bishop Richard Williamson for or against the Holocaust is entitled to respect. This does not represent the Church view for the Church can only define matters of faith and morals. Therefore, the Pope may lift the excommunication regardless his political view provided that he is not a heretic.
Is anyone surprised?
This is who they are.
I find it hypocritical that Anti Catholics are advocates of freedom of expression yet they are intolerant to anyone who does not agree with them by making insulting remarks.
Hear, hear! What’s with all this Nazi- and pedophile- and pedophile-abetting-bashing, anyway? Where’s the tolerance? Nazis and pedophiles and pedophile-abettors are people too! Entitled to their opinions just like Reality Based people are entitled to theirs.
its decadence and “beautiful whores”.
Because really, shouldn’t god be all about smiting ugly whores?
99 percent of people don’t care about the difference between lifting John Paul’s excommunication of the Society’s bishops, versus restoring the two sicko bishops to full communion with the Church. Still, Donohue can be an embarrassment to many American Catholics. The Pope needs better advisors, or needs to listen to them, or at least needs to offer a better explanation of why he makes the decisions he does.
“The comment of Bishop Richard Williamson for or against the Holocaust is entitled to respect.”
A comment FOR the Holocaust is entitled to respect???????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sir, seek professional help.
Church bashing and Pope bashing are all we hear from anti Catholics! Their contentions are misplaced and it only demonstrates their ignorance of the facts and the basis of every action and decision of the Church! The Church knows this world more than anyone do! The Church had handled all kinds of crisis since the 1st century and the Church has the courage to ask forgiveness from anyone who has been offended by its clergies. What about other people, organization or religion especially the Anti Christs, can you do the same thing? What a hypocrisy!
Who talks aboput the Armenian holocaust in Turkey? Who talks about the Christian holocaust in Iraq? Who talks about the Christian Holocaust in Orissa India? While the hypocrites ignore these holocausts, yet this very same people are exagerating the the Jewish holocausts to the point of bashing the Church! huh!