A Holocaust-denying bishop whose rehabilitation caused a rift between the Vatican and Jews last month was reportedly involved in an airport brawl in Argentina Tuesday.Bishop Richard Williamson,68, allegedly attacked an Argentinian TV journalist who approached him at Buenos Aires airport as he was about to leave the country on the orders of the government.
''I was attacked by Williamson,'' the journalist told the Argentine channel he works for, TN.
Official airport sources told ANSA that British-born Williamson was at Ezeira International Airport and a ''brawl'' occurred while he was waiting for a flight to London.
The journalist said the bishop, who was with two other men, assaulted him because he tried to interview him.
Williamson was ordered out of Argentina on Friday for alleged irregularities in his documentation.
The bishop, a member of a traditionalist group that split with the Vatican over the liberal reforms of the 1960s, had run a seminary near the Argentine capital since 2003.
Argentina is home to one of the world's biggest Jewish communities.
The Vatican has worked hard to close the rift with Jewish leaders caused by last month's lifting of the excommunication of Williamson and three other bishops ordained by the late breakaway ultraconservative French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1988.
It has said Pope Benedict XVI was unaware of Williamson's views when he rehabilitated him on January 21.
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(Source: ANSA)