BBC: The Vatican has rejected an apology by a British bishop who denied the full extent of the Holocaust. It said the bishop needed to "unequivocally and publicly" withdraw his comments. The Vatican has been embroiled in an international row after Pope Benedict XVI lifted an excommunication order on the British bishop in January. Church leaders said the Pope had not been aware at the time of an interview given by the bishop, a member of the traditionalist Society of St Pius X (SSPX), to a Swedish TV programme last November. In it, he disputed that six million Jews had been killed by the Nazis, and said that none had died in gas chambers. The Pope has since called on Bishop Williamson to recant his views.
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