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IOL: 'Nazi grandma' sentenced for Holocaust denial: Berlin - A notorious 87-year-old Holocaust denier dubbed the "Nazi grandma" by German media was sentenced to eight months in prison on Friday on charges of sedition relating to her claim that Auschwitz was never used for the mass extermination of Jews. » | Friederike Heine | Friday, September 2, 2016

Decision Expected This Month: Pope Likely To Allow Breakaway SSPX to Rejoin Church

SPIEGEL ONLINE INTERNATIONAL: Pope Benedict XVI is expected to allow the Society of St. Pius X, an ultraconservative, controversial splinter group, back into the Catholic Church in an agreement likely to be taken before the end of May, SPIEGEL has learned. But Holocaust denier Richard Williamson, an SSPX bishop, opposes an agreement.

Pope Benedict XVI may reach a decision by the end of May to allow the ultraconservative Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) to rejoin the Catholic church, SPIEGEL has learned.

At a meeting this coming Wednesday, the four cardinals of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, which oversees Catholic Church doctrine, plan to agree a proposal for reuniting the society with the Catholic Church, and will it submit it to the pope.

The Swiss-based SSPX, rejects some of the reforms made at the historic 1962 Second Vatican Council. It defied Rome in 1988 by illegally consecrating four bishops, which led to their excommunication by the late Pope John Paul. » | SPIEGEL | Sunday, May 13, 2012

The Criminalisation of Holocaust Denial
FINANCIAL TIMES: Laws that make denying or trivialising the Holocaust a criminal offence punishable by jail sentences will be introduced across the European Union, according to a proposal expecting to win backing from ministers Thursday.
Offenders will face up to three years in jail under the proposed legislation, which will also apply to inciting violence against ethnic, religious or national groups.

Diplomats in Brussels voiced confidence on Tuesday that the controversial plan, which has been the subject of heated debate for six years, will be endorsed by member states. However, the Baltic countries and Poland are still holding out for an inclusion of “Stalinist crimes” alongside the Holocaust in the text – a move that is being resisted by the majority of other EU countries. EU aims to criminalise Holocaust denial (Read on) by Tobias Buck

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