Call for pope to step down over Holocaust denier: "Attacks on Pope Benedict XVI's decision to lift the excommunication of a Holocaust denier escalated Monday, with one theologian calling on him to step down as the head of the Roman Catholic Church.
Criticism following the pope's January 24 announcement has been particularly cutting in Germany, where denying the Holocaust is a crime punishable with a jail sentence.
'If the pope wants to do some good for the Church, he should leave his job,' eminent liberal Catholic theologian Hermann Haering told the German daily Tageszeitung."
Monday, February 02, 2009
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