Bishop Richard Williamson: The Tinfoil Under the Skullcap
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Sun Jan 25, 2009 at 12:46:45 PM EST
As Frank Cocozzelli notes in the entry below, the Pope has made peace with four bishops belonging to the schismatic Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), who have now been re-admitted to the Catholic Church after accepting Papal authority. One of those who has his excommunication revoked is the British Holocaust-denying Bishop Richard Williamson.

Williamson wrote regular "letters" between 1991 and 2003, which can be perused at this website, in which he discourses on a range of subjects.  Here's a taster - take a deep breath:

The [1991] Gulf War and the state of the Catholic Church today - "until they re-discover their true Messianic vocation, [Jews] may be expected to continue fanatically agitating, in accordance with their false messianic vocation of Jewish world-dominion, to prepare the Anti-Christ's throne in Jerusalem. So we may fear their continuing to play their major part in the agitation of the East and in the corruption of the West."

Women's trousers are an assault upon woman's womanhood - "You wish to stop abortion? Do it by example. Never wear trousers or shorts."

The problem with The Sound of Music - "putting friendliness and fun in the place of authority and rules, it invites disorder between parents and children." Plus the film features villainous Nazis.

Girls at university - "Since modem [sic] man does not want her to do what God meant her to do, namely to have children, she takes her revenge by invading all kinds of things that man is meant to do."

World Trade Center - The Scourge of Sin - "Politically, behind the Arab terrorists are most likely the would-be architects of the New World Order, who have long been using the United States as an instrument to achieve their control of the world. Long ago they planned three World Wars to achieve their aim."

State of the Nations: Three Layers of Lies - "By lies, Judeo-Masonry is preparing for the Third World War" (In this piece, Williamson also commends the late South African apartheid-supporting journalist Aida Parker).

More recently, Williamson has given his thoughts to the world at other sites. In his 2005 "Denial of Christ creates chaos" he rails against immigration:

The infidels are at the gate: Eurabia is inevitable. ...the enemies of God, seeing as usual farther ahead than His friends, foresaw in the immigration of an alien population a great means of diluting the national identity of countries which by their long and proud history risked not easily being absorbed into the Antichrist's New World Order...

St Paul frames the equality of different human races, classes and sexes within Christ. In other words the equality is before God, and will only be fulfilled in Heaven. St Paul would never have dreamt of denying or wiping out the inequality of human differences before men. As to the inequality in this life between Jew and Greek, see Romans and Galatians; between bond and free, see Philemon; between man and woman, see Ephesians and Colossians. The will of God for men on earth is that Catholic save Jew, that the man free look after the bondsman and that the man be head of the woman. So when the white men give up on saving Jews, looking after other races and leading their womenfolk, it is altogether normal for them to be punished respectively by the domination of Jewish finance, by the refusal to follow of the non-white races and by rampant feminism.


Catholic journalist Michael Anger has also noted links between the SSPX, Williamson, and a far-right activist named Derek Holland; Holland and British National Party leader Nick Griffin helped to create the far-right "International Third Position".



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...for telling us more about this disgrace to Catholicism and humanity. Williamson's pernicious statements must be exposed to sunlight.

by Frank Cocozzelli on Sun Jan 25, 2009 at 01:39:19 PM EST

The Society of St. Pius X can have Williamson. Apparently the Jewish Agency in Israel is understandably upset about Williamson's rehabilitation, as this AP story makes clear.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/01/25/world/AP-ML-Israel-Vat ican.html?_r=1

Williamson is an anti-Semite of the same stripe as Hutton Gibson and his son Mel.

I don't think it's a good sign that Benedict is mending fences with bishops who make Fabian Bruskewitz look liberal. Yes, he's mending fences with the Society of St. Pius X (although I don't see it happening with the sedevacantist Society of St. Pius V,) but Benedict's outreach is alienating the more moderate and liberal Catholics.

 Unfortunately, the Vatican didn't excommunicate Williamson because of his anti-Semitism and sexism, but rather because he received ordination from the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who ordained Williamson and 3 other bishops in defiance of the Vatican.

by khughes1963 on Sun Jan 25, 2009 at 05:31:07 PM EST

I am sickened by this decision. As a liberal Catholic, I frequently feel out of place in my Church. However, I try very hard to be an ambassador for Jesus Christ in the world and let His words define and guide me. With the Catholic Church being taken over by conservatives whose words and actions are far from what Jesus directed us to do, I wonder sometimes what it says to others when I call myself a Catholic. I would appreciate some perspective from others on how they handle this struggle,

by DrJ on Sun Jan 25, 2009 at 06:50:25 PM EST
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I am a practicing Catholic, and I've been pretty disgusted with the management.

by khughes1963 on Sun Jan 25, 2009 at 07:13:45 PM EST
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alive today can believe all that misogynistic garbage! "Universities are for ideas; ideas are not for girls." I don't know whether to laugh or cry. In any case, the old curmudgeon needs to go back under the rock he was under before Ratzinger called him out. Sheesh.

by phatkhat on Mon Jan 26, 2009 at 03:08:55 AM EST

Boy, you weren't kidding about that deep breath.

by Emproph on Tue Jan 27, 2009 at 04:36:43 AM EST


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