Vatican Orders Bishop to Recant

The Vatican is now ordering a Bishop who denies the Holocaust to publically renounce the idea. Richard Williamson sparked a strong reaction after it became apparent the pope had lifted the excommunication of a Holocaust denier. Williamson has apologized to Pope Benedict XVI for his "imprudent remarks" but that is not enough for the Vatican - even though the Pope's number two man said yesterday the case is considered "closed" yesterday. Williamson told a TV interviewer recently that the evidence "is hugely against six million Jews being (killed in the Holocaust) as a deliberate policy of Adolf Hitler.” Israel's highest religious authority decided to cut ties with the Vatican over the issue.