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The day's sole foreign story to attract a correspondent originated in the Vatican, even though Dan Harris actually filed ABC's A Closer Look from New York. Harris examined Pope Benedict XVI's decision to rehabilitate a schismatic group of "right-wing" bishops who had been excommunicated for their repudiation of Vatican II. Their ecclesiastical dispute was not what Harris found newsworthy, however. It was Bishop Richard Williamson's counterfactual--to put it politely--understanding of history: "I believe there were no gas chambers," Williamson asserted concerning the Nazi Holocaust. "The Germans have a guilt complex…I do not think 6m Jews were gassed." ABC's Harris called the Holy Father's rehabilitation of Williamson a "public relations fiasco," earning him "a rare public rebuke" from Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel. Williamson has apologized to Benedict "for causing him embarrassment but not for what he said about the Holocaust."
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