Hitchens on the un-Excommunication of Richard Williamson

Most interesting article in Newsweek about the rightward tilt of the Catholic Church under Benedict:

When excesses are committed by the religious (something which does indeed seem to happen from time to time), you often hear it argued that these are only perversions of the "true" or "real" or authentic teachings. What makes the present case so alarming is that concessions are being made to Holocaust-deniers and anti-Semites, and that this is not a departure from "original intent" Catholicism but rather part of a return to traditional and old-established preachments.