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Holocaust-denying priest burns Vatican texts

An Italian priest whose remarks about the Holocaust last year caused uproar is courting controversy again.

In a protest against "modernism" in the Catholic church, Father Floriano Abrahamowicz publicly burned copies of the texts of the Second Vatican Council, or Vatican II.

In a chapel at Paese, northern Italy, with a group of his followers, the priest read an anti-modernist oath before burning the texts.

Abrahamowicz, expelled by the Society of St. Pius X following his comments on the Holocaust, claimed his latest protest had the approval of a Catholic bishop, who he would not name.

As well as claiming the Nazi gas chambers were used to "disinfect" rather than to kill, he has been accused of excusing SS atrocities and Italian fascism. He has also publicly criticised the current pope, Benedict XVI, and referred to Vatican II as a "cesspool".

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