UNITED KINGDOM
Christian Today
Harry Farley JOURNALIST 06 April 2017
Clergy accused of sex abuse are finding refuge with a breakaway order run by a traditionalist British priest in Kent.
Richard Williamson was automatically excommunicated after he was illicitly ordained as a bishop by the late Marcel Lefebvre of the ultra-conservative Society of St Pius X (SSPX). He was expelled from the society after appealed unsuccessfully against his conviction for holocaust denial in a German court.
In a Swedish TV broadcast, he had denied gas chambers were used in the Holocaust and also claimed the number of Jewish people killed was far fewer than the six million figure usually cited.
According to a new Swedish television documentary broadcast yesterday, Williamson now leads the SSPX Resistance in Kent, a new breakaway group.
Two former SSPX priests accused of sex abuse have found a home in his order, the Swedish broadcast claimed.
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