The Holocaust denying bishop, Richard Williamson goes back to the issue of the Jews, analysing the “conspiracy theories”.
As the Society of Saint Pius X (the Catholic traditionalist community founded by Marcel Lefebvre) comes one step closer to establishing peace with Rome, the Lefebvrian prelate who was pardoned by the Holy See, raises his voice through his “Eleison Comments”.
“The Catholic faith and Jewish power are like two weighing pans on a pair of scales: when the Catholic Faith goes up, Jewish power goes down and vice versa,” Mgr. Williamson affirmed.
The 71 year old English bishop has a turbulent past. In 1988 he was consecrated bishop Mgr. Lefebvre. This caused a schism and John Paul II excommunicated him immediately.
Twenty years later, in 2009, Benedict XVI revoked the excommunication. According to Canon law, Williamson was still excluded from full communion with the Church.
But protests against clemency being given to a Holocaust denier skyrocketed. The Pope said he was in the dark about Williamson’s anti-Jewish sentiment. The Vatican’s request for the bishop’s retraction, led to an evasive reply by the latter.
The Holy See raised its voice in vain, even going as far as self-criticism for its revocation of the bishop’s excommunication. Williamson continues to be the cause of debate.
“Before the Virgin Mary appeared to Fatima in 1917, the Church’s enemies had the government entirely under their control. But when practically all the Portuguese population prayed and did penance as the Virgin Mary had asked, She simply dissolved the power of the Church’s enemies, with a bloodless revolution - Williamson explained.
In the Twentieth century, without God and with communism triumphing everywhere, Portugal became a visible example of the Catholic State.”
Furthermore, “the most intelligent among God’s enemies, are well aware that they are serving Him like a whip that beats the backs of His unfaithful people. If only God’s friends would understand that they are the victims of the lashings of God’s enemies, so that all souls could return to Him and deserve Heaven, then conspiracy theories would all fall back into place: neither more nor less important than what they really are.”
Mgr. Williamson guarantees he does not wish to dwell too much on “the part played by the Jews in world affairs,” because “whatever problem they may or may not represent, they are certainly not the main problem.” The central problem is “the wickedness of modern human beings.”
According to Williamson, “conspiracy theories such as that of the Jews who would allegedly plot to dominate the world are widespread, but they are exaggerated in terms of two aspects, and it is not easy to find a balance between these.”
Most people, who follow the media, believe all conspiracy theories are irrational and that people that believe in such theories are “conspirators”. On the other hand, a small minority with deep rooted convictions “maintains that all happenings in the world must necessarily be explained through some conspiracy or another, particularly through a Jewish conspiracy.”
According to the ultra-traditionalist the essential truth was best expressed by a writer who was well known within the Church, 1800 years ago: Tertullian (160-220). That is, “the main problem are not the Jews, but the increase or decrease in people’s Faith.”
This explains why “conspiracies really do exist, why they play an important role and therefore so should not simply be dismissed, but the main problem remains the fact that humans are distancing themselves from the one true God in his real Church.”
So “Gentiles only have themselves to blame if Jewish power today is so overwhelming.” Thus, “those who are able to grasp what Disraeli and Woodrow Wilson hinted at but were not able to openly express, that is, that there is an invisible dark power that controls events in the world, should not lose their balanced outlook by cursing the Enlightened, the Jews, the Masons or others, but should heed the wise words of Saint Pius X: “If all men do their duty, everything will go well.”
Since our foremost duty is towards God, as the First Commandment says, if we all did our duty and turned to God again, it would be mere child’s play for Him to eliminate the power currently held by His enemies, given that they only have this power because he allows them to have it, having not intervened at the start to prevent this.”
The storm that has brewed up around the Holocaust denying bishop shows no sign of reprieve.
When he was in Germany, Richard Williamson publicly denied the deaths of the millions of people who lost their lives in the Holocaust and the existence of gas chambers in Nazi concentration camps. As a result, last July, Regensburg Court sentenced him to a 6500 Euro fine. Williamson’s criminal sentence in Germany clashed with negotiations with Rome.
The Society of Saint Pius X’s Superior, Mgr. Fellay accused the Roman Curia of contradicting itself: “Some, in Rome, are prepared to consider us as outsiders to the Church, as excommunicated individuals. And then there are others who truly recognise us as Catholics.”