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President of U.S. Bishops Says Holocaust Denial 'Deeply Offensive and Utterly False'
February 3, 2009The President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has called remarks denying the Holocaust by Bishop Richard Williamson of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X, "deeply offensive and utterly false." The assessment came in a February 3 statement by Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, USCCB President. The Holocaust denial by Bishop Williamson was widely publicized after Pope Benedict XVI lifted the excommunication upon the bishops of the St. Pius X Society. Cardinal George's statement follows. Full release