for the insulting decree of 'lifting' is Joseph Ratzinger, who continues unperturbed the modernist ecumenism of the Second Vatican Council, which he calls "a beacon we cannot renounce", thus incurring the excommunication Saint Pius X issued against the modernists. An excommunicate lifts a non-existent censure!''. On March 15, 2010, after a Mass in Treviso, Italy, he publicly burned a volume of Vatican II documents. Holocaust denial controversy On 29 January 2009, amid the controversy over Bishop Richard Williamson's denial of the Holocaust, Abrahamowicz said he was not sure the Nazis had used gas chambers for anything other than disinfection, claimed that the number of six million Jews killed was derived from a number used by the head of the German Jewish community without knowledge of the facts, complained that the Holocaust had wrongly been exalted, by Jews in particular, above other genocides and said that the people of Israel "initially were the people of God, ... then became the people of deicide, and ... at the end of time will reconvert to Jesus Christ." Expulsion from SSPX On 5 February 2009,the Italian chapter of the Society of St. Pius X issued a notification that from the following day Abrahamowicz was expelled from the Society "for serious disciplinary reasons": "Father Florian Abrahamowicz has for some time been expressing opinions differing from the official views of the Society of St. Pius X. The painful decision to expel him has become necessary in order to avoid having the image of the Society of St. Pius X further distorted with consequent harm to its work at the service of the Church." References External links Website of Florian Abrahamowicz 1961 births Living people 20th-century Austrian Roman Catholic priests Austrian traditionalist Catholics Italian traditionalist Catholics People expelled from the Society of St. Pius X Austrian emigrants to Italy Austrian people of Romanian descent Traditionalist Catholic conspiracy theorists Austrian people of Romanian-Jewish descent Austrian people of Armenian descent Clergy from Vienna Austrian conspiracy theorists Austrian Holocaust deniers Traditionalist Catholic priests