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VATICAN CITY — After two weeks of international outcry over the pope’s decision to readmit a Holocaust-denying bishop, the Vatican’s top leaders are engaged in an extraordinarily severe — and rare — round of public criticism. Jewish groups were outraged when Pope Benedict XVI lifted the 1988 excommunications of Bishop Richard Williamson and three other…

Vatican City/Berlin/Jerusalem – The Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem welcomed Thursday the pope’s decision to demand that Bishop Richard Williamson publicly and unambiguously recant his stance regarding the Holocaust. Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev said the pope’s decision sends an important message that there was no place within the church for those who deny…

Leaders of the Anglican Communion said Thursday (Feb. 5) that they, not dissident conservatives, will decide what role a newly formed traditionalist North American church will have in their worldwide fellowship. Concluding their weeklong meeting in Alexandria, Egypt, the Anglican leaders also said a new North American church should not “seek to recruit or expand…

Feb. 4–Nearly three years after U.S. agents first seized hundreds of documents from a Toledo-based Muslim charity and froze its financial assets, a federal judge issued an order that ultimately allows the organization to defend itself. U.S. District Court Judge James Carr signed an order Jan. 30 for the government to produce “forthwith” copies of…
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