https://freerepublic.com/tag/excommunicationsspx/ en-us Mon, 2 Feb 2009 18:50:10 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2176813/posts Bishop Ad van Luyn (photo: Diocese of Rotterdam) Pope Benedict XVIProfessor Jean-Pierre Wils (2009) Photo: Radboud University Roman Catholic Bishop Ad van Luyn of Rotterdam has said that Pope Benedict's decision to rehabilitate renegade British Bishop Richard Williamson is "disastrous". Speaking on public television, Bishop Van Luyn said that Williamson's denial of the Holocaust and its gas chambers are "shocking, totally ahistoric, and at odds with the second Vatican Council [the 1962-65 church reform]". A professor of theology and ethics at the Roman Catholic Radboud University in Nijmegen is leaving the church over the issue. Professor Jean-Pierre Wils told... Radio Netherlands Worldwide https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2176813/posts#comment Mon, 2 Feb 2009 18:50:10 GMT