VATICAN CITY, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- A spokesman for the Vatican says the church has no response to an apology offered by a bishop who once denied the Holocaust occurred.
Bishop Richard Williamson of the traditionalist St. Pius X Society had apologized in a letter to the Vatican this week for the media uproar he created by questioning Holocaust details, The New York Times said Saturday.
On Wednesday, Pope Benedict XVI spoke out against Williamson's recent comments.
Williamson had claimed "historical evidence is hugely against 6 million Jews having been deliberately gassed in gas chambers as a deliberate policy of Adolf Hitler," the Religion News Service said in The Washington Post.
The Catholic News Agency said Williamson's apology came in the wake of Benedict's lifting of the excommunication against the bishop and three of his St. Pius peers.
The pope lifted the 1988 excommunications against Williamson and three other bishops in an attempt to enhance the unity of the Roman Catholic Church, the news agency said.
