Jewish groups dismayed over papal decision on 'Holocaust denier' Vatican restores Society of Saint Pius X
American and British Jewish groups say they are shocked by a decision of Pope Benedict XVI to overturn the excommunication of a British bishop who has said the number of Jews killed during the Holocaust has been exaggerated.
The move is “a serious blow for Jewish-Vatican relations and a slap in the face of the late Pope John Paul II, who made such remarkable efforts to eradicate and combat anti-Semitism,” said Rabbi David Rosen, the international director of interreligious affairs for the New York–based American Jewish Committee.