Pope Benedict XVI sparked a firestorm by lifting the excommunication of a bishop who claims the Holocaust never occurred. How could anyone believe such a thing? All kinds of people, it turns out.

Richard Williamson, Catholic Bishop Whose Denial of Holocaust Embarrassed Pope Benedict XVI, Dies ROME (AP) — Richard Williamson, an ultra-traditionalist Catholic bishop whose denial of the ...

an ultra-traditionalist Catholic bishop whose denial of the Holocaust created a scandal in 2009 when Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated him and other members of his breakaway society, has died.