Holocaust-denying bishop plans consecration without pope's consent

[Warren Stupidity]

A Holocaust-denying Catholic bishop who made headlines in 2009 when Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated him and members of his breakaway traditionalist society is heading for new trouble with the Vatican.

Bishop Richard Williamson is planning to consecrate a new bishop on Thursday in Brazil without Pope Francis’s consent – a church crime punishable by excommunication.
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In 2009, Benedict removed the excommunications – but an uproar ensued, since Williamson said in a television interview aired just before the decree was made public that he did not believe Jews were killed in gas chambers during the second world war.

Trincado said neither Williamson nor Faure fear a new excommunication “because what we intend with this consecration is to preserve the true Catholic faith from the greatest crisis that the church has suffered in her history”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/18/vatican-bishop-consecration-without-pope-approval

* yikes *

[JDDavis]

1. So Catholic leaders around the world are becoming as crazy as

Republicans in the U.S. Congress.

[longship]

2. "True Catholic faith"

Let's see Francis' response about that.

Interesting... And yes... YIKES!
R&K

[okasha]

4. I forsee increased demand for rental properties on Malta.

[hrmjustin]

3. If he does that he will be automatically excommunicated.