This does not have anything to do with Benedict XVI directly, but it's a major development in a case that even friendly voices have criticized as a PR fiasco for the Pope....
FSSPX threatens to expel Williamson
unless he fires his neo-Nazi lawyer
VATICAN CITY, Nov. 21 (Adnkronos/Ign) - The Superior General of the FSSPX, Mons. Bernard Fellay, has taken a hard line with Holocaust negationist Mons. Richard Williamson.
Fellay has warned the British-born Williamson that he must fire the neo-Nazi German lawyer he has just hired to defend him in Germany on charges of Holocaust negationism which is a crime in that country.
The FSSPX released a communique which reads:
The Superior General, Mons. Bernard Fellay, has learned from the newspapers about the decision of Mons. Richard Williamson ten days before a scheduled court trial to fire his lawyer in favor of another lawyer who is openly linked to the neo-Nazi movement and other similar groups in Germany.
Mons. Fellay has sent Mons. Williamson a formal order to revoke his decision and not to allow himself to be instrumentalized by political beliefs that are totally extraneous to his mission as a Catholic bishop in the service of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X.
Disobedience to this order will result in the expulsion of Mons. Williamson from the Fraternity.
Williamson's new lawyer, Wolfram Nahrath, founding member of the extreme right National Democratic Party of Germany, was the leader of the Viking Youth, a neo-Nazi organization modelled after the Hitler Youth, which was banned in Germany in 1993. Nahrath has defended Nazi groups accused of serious racial crimes.
Richard Williamson is like Richard Dawkins - they are brilliant men whose intellectual arrogance, generally manifested as a monomania, has blinded them and made them lose all common sense. Williamson can't leave the FSSPX soon enough! They should all learn lessons in humility from Benedict XVI.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 22/11/2010 02:27]