Chief Rabbinate of Israel cuts ties with Vatican over Holocaust bishop

From Times Online
January 28, 2009
Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent and Richard Owen in Rome

The Chief Rabbinate of Israel has cut ties with the Vatican over the Pope's decision to lift the excommunication on an English bishop who denies the full extent of the Holocaust.

In a measure of Jewish anger around the world at the decision to reinstate the four bishops of the Society of St Pius X, the Chief Rabbinate has written to the office of Pope Benedict XVI condemning Bishop Richard Williamson's comments as "odious" and "outrageous". The letter was leaked to the Jerusalem Post.

Jewish leaders in the UK have also protested at the lifting of the excommunicatons on Bishop Williamson and three other bishops.
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