The Pope has already spoken clearly

Note from the Secretariat of State

"... The positions of Mons. Williamson on the Shoah are absolutely unacceptable and firmly rejected by the Holy Father, as he himself remarked on the past January 28, when, referring to that brutal genocide, reaffirmed his full and unquestionable solidarity with our Brethren receivers of the First Covenant, and affirmed that the memory of that terrible genocide must lead "mankind to reflect on the unpredictable power of evil when it conquers the heart of man", adding that the Shoah remains "for all a warning against forgetfulness, against denial or reductionism, because the violence against a single human being is violence against all". Bishop Williamson, for an admission to episcopal functions in the Church, will also have to declare, in an absolutely unequivocal and public manner, distance from his positions regarding the Shoah, unknown to the Holy Father in the moment of the remission of the excommunication. ..."

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These following words of Pope Benedict XVI spoken on several occasion, clearly demonstrate that he has no need to give any explainations of what he thinks about:

the Holocaust

the Gas Chambers and Ovens

the more than six million victims

Pope Benedict XVI speak for us all.

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Pope Benedict XVI
Cologne, Germany
Friday 19 August, 2005

Pope Benedict XVI in Auschwitz

“...And in the 20th century,
in the darkest period of German and European history,
an insane racist ideology,
born of neo-paganism,
gave rise to the attempt,
planned and systematically carried out by the regime,
to exterminate European Jewry.
The result has passed into history as
the Shoah.
The victims of this unspeakable and previously unimaginable crime amounted to 11,000 named individuals in Cologne alone; the real figure was surely much higher. The holiness of God was no longer recognized, and consequently, contempt was shown for the sacredness of human life.
This year, 2005, marks the 60th anniversary of
the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps,
in which millions of Jews
- men, women and children -
were put to death
in the gas chambers and ovens. ..."

Pope Benedict XVI
Concentration Camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau
28 May 2006

Pope Benedict XVI
Rome
31 May 2006

Pope Benedict XVI is unequivocal

"... All Christians must feel committed to bearing this witness in order to prevent humanity of the third millennium from once again experiencing horrors similar to those tragically called to mind by the extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. It was precisely in that place, sadly famous throughout the world, that I chose to stop before returning to Rome.
Hitler had more than 6 million Jews exterminated in the camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau and in other similar camps. About 150,000 Poles and tens of thousands of men and women of other nationalities died at Auschwitz-Birkenau. In the face of the horror of Auschwitz there is no other response than the Cross of Christ: Love descended to the very depths of the abyss of evil to save man in his core, where human freedom can rebel against God.
May contemporary humanity never forget Auschwitz or the other "death factories" where the Nazi regime attempted to eliminate God in order to replace him! May it not succumb to the temptation of racial hatred which is at the root of the worst forms of anti-Semitism! May people recognize once again that God is the Father of all and calls us all, in Christ, to build a world of justice, truth and peace together! ..."