In a statement published by the Zenit news agency on Thursday, Bishop Williamson said: "I can truthfully say that I regret having made such remarks, and that if I had known beforehand the full harm and hurt to which they would give rise, especially to the Church, but also to survivors and relatives of victims of injustice under the Third Reich, I would not have made them."
He added: "To all souls that took honest scandal from what I said, before God I apologize."
His statement did not address the content of his remarks, in which he had said that no more than 300,000 people died in the Holocaust and none in gas chambers. In recent weeks, he has said in interviews that he needs more time to study documentation about the Holocaust.
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Richard Williamson has apparently apologized, but it's still not clear if he believes that the Holocaust actually happened:
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