"On the assumption that there not only theological but also moral criteria to being reinstated in the Catholic Church, an excommunicated priest who denies the Holocaust should automatically remain ....."

With the admission that theology and morality are separate ideas, it should not be surprising that the Pope, the ultimate magistrate and final interpreter of Catholic doctrine can remain without error. Moral mistakes have never interfered with Catholic dogma. The legal conscience is, as always, a dangerous thing. It is political activism at its most sinister and perilous.