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1. The Swedes would do better to worry about how they are going to cope under Sharia Law.

   Posted By: Lance Eccles

2. I think that all priests and bishops, including Bishop Williamson, should be obligated to say both the Old and the New Rite of Mass.
   Also, arguing over the numbers of Jews killed during the Nazi era is wrong because one death is a tragedy and we all should know that the number murdered is six million( some estimates say more not less).
   
   The way forward and to reduce scapegoating and real or imagined social and economic hoarding and injustice, isn't to pick on a group but rather to work for justice and peace and get agreement on what this means in light of our social teaching heritage.
   
   Those who fight against our social teaching will sink themselves and hence there is no need for Bishop Williamson's queries over Holocaust death numbers.
   He is off track and needs to return to the Church's social teaching here today and get out more and listen to the hardships of his flock and also to tell them ( and himself) to return to the Church as the Pope understands it; not as he himself understands it.

   Posted By: Michel Webb

3. Another beat-up designed to erode the authority and standing of the Church and the Pope.
   
   For my own part I think Bp Williamson himself shows all the signs of being an aged nutter. However Bp Williamson's personal weirdness is NOT the subject of the discussions with the SSPX or of the excommunications.
   
   But the secular (and religious?) media seem incapable of making any such sensible and just distinctions.
   
   Jesus told us that the World would hate Christians because it hates him. The times in which we live are strewn with examples of the truth of Our Lord's comments.

   Posted By: Peter

4. This is so studpid. Lifting of an unjust excommunication has nothing to do with the personal opinions on historical matters of the person involved.
   It doesn't matter if he thinks 6 or 6 billion people were killed in the Holocaust, if he was the recipient of an unjust penality and it has been reversed, it is irrelevant.
   This is just an excuse to try and negatively influence the doctrinal talks between the SSPX and the Vatican.
   Obviously someone is very worried, to try and create some kind of scandal to thwart this effort.

   Posted By: D'Arcy

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