The Boston Globe has found three seminarians who studied at a Connecticut seminary with Bishop Richard Williamson, the ultraconservative Holocaust denier, who say they complained to superiors about him and that the Vatican should have known about his controversial views.

“He called the Holocaust the biggest theatrics known to mankind – I remember sitting in a conference one time when he said those words, and I couldn’t believe it – he looked around the room and saw the jaws dropping,” recalls Joseph Rizzo. “He said it was all staged, and when I asked why, he said because the Jews own the country, they own the banks, and he felt it was some kind of effort to generate some sympathy toward them.”

Williamson also singled out a student with a large nose and asked “Are you baptized, or are you a Jew?”

To a man named Oppenheimer Williamson said: “I don’t like your name. If you keep it up, there’s a gas chamber waiting for you at the boathouse.’ “

Bottom line, say the former seminarians: Williamson is “a sick man” with “a horrible attitude toward women and a horrible attitude toward Jews.”

And the Vatican should’ve know that, the seminarians say.