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German Chancellor Angela Merkel today praised the Vatican's "unequivocal" demand that British-born Bishop Richard Williamson recant his denial of the Holocaust before he can be rehabilitated.

Also this week, the president of the U.S. bishops' conference condemned Williamson's remarks as "deeply offensive and utterly false." And the head of the ultra-traditionalist Catholic group to which Williamson belongs said, "Anti-Semitism has no place in our ranks."

Hmmm. It's hard to miss the antagonistic view of Catholic-Jewish relations contained in the official literature of Williamson's group, the Society of St. Pius X, and in past statements by the society's leaders. Religion News Service has an article.

From the Associated Press:

A central Pennsylvania pastor is accused of offering to pay one of his parishioners for sex.

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