Chief Rabbinate cuts ties with Vatican over Bishop Williamson
The chief Rabbinate of Israel sent a letter to the Vatican saying that dialogue with Catholics could not continue as before "without a public apology from Bishop Williamson and recanting his deplorable statements". The Rabbinate said it said it would not attend a meeting scheduled for March "until this matter is clarified".
Chief Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said he hoped the pope's words at the audience would be "sufficient to respond to the doubts expressed about the position of the pope and the Catholic Church" on the Holocaust. (Reuters)
