SSPX Bishop Richard Williamson Ordered to Remove Lawyer Affiliated with Neo-Nazi Movement

SSPX Bishop Richard Williamson Ordered to Remove Lawyer Affiliated with Neo-Nazi Movement, Before Germany Appeal Begins:

Bishop Richard Williamson of the Society of Saint Pius X recently hired lawyer, Wolfram Nahrath, to conduct his appeal against a €10,000 fine imposed on April, 2010, in Regensburg, Germany, (Regensburg Court) for comments he made in a 2008 Swedish television interview regarding the Holocaust.

The Society of Saint Pius X recently learned via Germany’s Spiegel news magazine that Bishop Williamson hired Nahrath, a lawyer who is affiliated with the so-called neo-Nazi movement in Germany.

The Society of Saint Pius X Superior General, Bishop Bernard Fellay, on Saturday, November 20, released the following worldwide statement from Menzingen, Switzerland:

FRATERNITAS SACERDOTALIS SANCTI PII X

GENERAL HOUSE PRESS RELEASE

The Superior General, Bishop Bernard Fellay, has learnt by the press of Bishop Richard Williamson’s decision, just ten days before his trial, to dismiss the lawyer charged with his defense, in favor of a lawyer who is openly affiliated to the so-called neo-Nazi movement in Germany, and to other such groups.

Bishop Fellay has given Bishop Williamson a formal order to go back on this decision and to not allow himself to become an instrument of political theses that are completely foreign to his mission as a Catholic bishop serving the Society of Saint Pius X.

Disobedience to this order would result in Bishop Williamson being expelled from the Society of Saint Pius X.

Menzingen, November 20 of 2010.

Fr. Christian Thouvenot, general Secretary

Traditional Catholicism and the teachings of Bishop Richard Williamson

An article by J. Christopher Pryor has just been published in the Journal for the Study of Anti-Semitism. Titled "Traditional Catholicism and the Teachings of Bishop Richard Williamson", it explores the anti-semitic worldview of the notorious bishop of the Society for Saint Pius X.

Mr. Pryor begins by "highlighting key experiences [he] had while studying in Bishop Williamson’s seminary in Winona, Minnesota", in order to "illustrate his process of indoctrination, the particular methodology that ensured that his philosophy was thoroughly absorbed by the seminarians."

Worth reading in full.

Bishop Williamson on SSPX-Vatican talks: "dialogue of the deaf"

Via Reuters' Faithworld): Bishop Williamson is at it again -- this time dismissing the talks between the Vatican and the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) as a "dialogue of the deaf" - "Either the SSPX becomes a traitor or Rome converts."