Madrid - A high-level Vatican official on Friday declined to comment on allegations that Vatican decision-making is failing in the wake of the Bishop Williamson Holocaust denial scandal, replying with only one sentence: "We have no FBI."
Mexican Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, president of the Pontifical Council for Health, was commenting on the row in an interview published by the Spanish daily El Mundo.
Lozano Barragan described Williamson's denial of the Holocaust as a "stupidity," stressing the British-born bishop had already made the claims a year ago.
"Any one of us can say a stupidity, and are we going to be excommunicated for that?" the cardinal asked.