Letting a Holocaust denier back into the fold?  I’m not sure about this.

“In welcoming an open Holocaust denier into the Catholic Church without any recantation on his part, the Vatican has made a mockery of John Paul II’s moving and impressive repudiation and condemnation of anti-Semitism,” he said.

Elan Steinberg, vice president of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, spoke of “an act of moral debasement unworthy of a moral institution.”

Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League said: “What was the imperative to bring these people back into the Church at such a high cost to the Jewish people?”

Diplomatic sources said the row could put the pope’s planned trip to the Holy Land in May in doubt.