Rare public criticism heard at Vatican

VATICAN CITY: Criticism of Pope Benedict XVI has come from various quarters – Muslims, Jews, members of his own flock. But in the latest papal controversy, even Germany’s leader and some top Roman Catholic churchmen are questioning Vatican policy after Benedict last month rehabilitated a Holocaust denier as bishop along with three other ultraconservative clergymen.

VATICAN CITY: Criticism of Pope Benedict XVI has come from various quarters – Muslims, Jews, members of his own flock.

But in the latest papal controversy, even Germany’s leader and some top Roman Catholic churchmen are questioning Vatican policy after Benedict last month rehabilitated a Holocaust denier as bishop along with three other ultraconservative clergymen.

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