Enforcing thought control is tough, and a double-edged sword. Take the pope's predicament. He wants to 'heal' the catholic church by rehabilitating (and not in the 12-Step sense) some bishops who belong to a breakaway part of the church. Basically, they think the Vatican's gone too soft in liberalizing the church and backing away from the jews killed jesus stuff. Funny thing, one of the rehabilitated bishops is a holocaust denier.
How can this be a surprise to anyone? The bigger surprise is the Ratzinger supposedly didn't know about it. C'mon, what a bunch of horseshit. Being a cardinal among Hitler's willing executioners must have given him a little sensitivity on the subject.
The fact is that this pope, and the people who help him make these kinds of decisions, don't think that anti-semitism is a big deal. They say it is when they're called on it, but let's judge them on their actions when people aren't looking. When they start releasing the communications between Pius XII and the Nazi's during WWII I'll start to believe it.
Of course, this whole idea of brining these guys back into the church because they claim they think more like the church is an enormous bunch of crap. Pulease. They may change what they are singing, but the tune inside their heads is still the same. Just like the vatican when it talks about anti-semitism.
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