How important are our “Genocidal Priests” to Rome?

In January, the Vatican was abuzz with news of the eminent rehabilitation of four clergy men – all members of the fundamentalist Society of St. Pius X – who had been excommunicated in 1988. The announcement could not have come at a worse time. Only days before, one of the Bishops, Richard Williamson, had created a maelstrom world-wide for his revisionist views of the Jewish holocaust. The man had downplayed the genocide on Swedish state TV, asserting that only between 200,000 and 300,000 were “murdered” and none passed through the gas chambers! This was the person the Vatican wanted to bring out from the cold. The international furore that followed the saga was only maintained because of the powerful Jewish lobby, causing St. Peter’s spin doctors to work overtime in damage control. But not so, for some related incident somewhere near the East African coast. For the second time, a Roman Catholic priest has been found guilty of taking part in the 1994 Genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) based in the northern part of Tanzania, yesterday sentenced Fr. Emmanuel Rukundo two 25 years in jail.