The Vatican has said that the pope did not now know that Williamson was a Holocaust denier when he lifted his excommunication on Jan.24.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

I can speak here from personal experience. If you look me up on Guenter Lewy, Armenian genocide and you look at some of the blogs, you will find a lot of vituperation: you are called a genocide denier on a par with holocaust deniers."

VOA: standard.2010.03.18