Nazi Pope Reinstates Holocaust Denying Bishop

It's amazing that people who criticize Israel for attacking schools and civilians in Gaza are called antisemitic when the highest officer in the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI, was a Nazi soldier. Everybody loves to attack Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his Holocaust Denial. At least Iran's president didn't participate in the Holocaust.

Now, according to the NY Times, the pope is revoking the excommunication of Bishop Richard Williamson, who just last month denied the Nazi gas chambers.

According to the Boston Globe, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel chastised the Nazi Pope for giving "the impression that Holocaust denial might be tolerated..."

At what point do Catholics unite against Nazi leaders in their church? Now, I admit I grew up Protestant and now identify with some hodgepodge of secular humanism and neopaganism. As you can imagine, I don't have a whole lot of understanding of religious hierarchies, so maybe I just don't get it that Jesus would send his mandate to earth in the form of an ex-Nazi. But wasn't Jesus a Jew? Wasn't he reforming Judaism. Would the young Pope have gassed Jesus and now deny it?