In an another boneheaded move the Vatican decided to lift the excommunication of a nutjob bishop, you know the kind that denies the Holocaust ever happened. Nice. Next thing he might say the earth is flat and that there is an invisible man in the sky.

Suffice to say Jewish relations with the Vatican are strained. While the Vatican and several bishop conferences distanced themselves publicly from the nutty views of this bishop he is still a welcome and upstanding member of the Catholic club.

Prosecutors in Germany may have a different take:

State prosecutors in Regensburg, Germany, have opened a preliminary investigation into whether Williamson broke German laws against Holocaust denial as he spoke to Swedish state TV while in Germany.