Denial Ain’t Just a Virulent Strain in Traditional Catholicism

The Pope has de-excommunicated a bishop who denies the Holocaust. Apparently all women are still unfit for the priesthood but a virulent anti-Semite deserves a second chance.

What to make of a Holocaust-denying priest? He doubts the Holocaust happened … but he's really sure about Jesus. You can trust him on that.

There's more physical, archival and eye-witness evidence of the Shoah. You can even go to Auschwitz and see the gas chambers. I'm pretty sure if you try going to Golgotha they've taken the cross down by now. There might be a cardboard one up for people to pose behind for pictures and stuff, but it's not the original.

But hey, who ya gonna believe: Ellie Wiesel or a vague 1^st Century author known only as "Mark" who heard it from a guy who heard it from a guy who swears he was there?

About the only way to cast further doubt on the Gospels would be to make them an Oprah's Book Club selection. Granted, Ellie Wiesel's book was once an Oprah's Book Club Selection, but that just shows how even Oprah's fallibility is not an infallible standard.

And even a Pope can F up.