An official communiqu from the Swiss headquarters of the Society of St. Pius Xstates that its Superior General. Bishop Bernard Fellay, learned from the press that Bishop Richard Williamson, ten days before he is to go on trial in Germany for denying the Holocaust, has fired his attorney and hired in his place a lawyer who is openly linked to the neo-Nazi movement in Germany. Fellay has issued a formal order to Williamson "to reverse this decision and not to allow himself to be used by political theses completely foreign to his mission as a Catholic bishop in the service of the Society of St. Pius X. Disobedience to this order will result in Bishop Williamsons exclusion from the Society of St. Pius X."

Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.

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