St Pius X Society and holocaust denial

Damien Thompson writes a (probably) sympathetic article about Benedict, which criticises the handling of the lifting on the ban on the Saint Pius X bishops. He says that the Pope should install some English-speaking PR people at the Vatican, which I would have to agree with. The Catholic church's views are misrepresented constantly by the media, and the Vatican cannot rely on them suddenly becoming fairer.

In terms of the rightness of lifting the ban, the Catholic church can't exclude people on the basis of its political opinions. This leads to groupthink and the erosion of free speech. Holocaust denial has recently been joined by Climate change denial in the list of politically correct crimes. The accusation of “Holocaust denial” is linked to the suppression of debate on race and mass immigration in the West, which has done so much to subvert principles of free speech today. The suffering of the Jews was terrible but enforcing a culture of groupthink does more damaged to civilsed values in the end.

Nick Squires documents the fury of the progressive lobby. But I suspect these are the usual suspects, who rejected Humanae Vitae, were equivocal on abortion, and are generally speaking more loyal to the views of progressive liberalism than 2000 years of Christian tradition. In this case, they are part of the movement that wishes to banish from the public sphere anyone who does not have the right opinions. Yes, the wider issue about the role of the Jews in the crucifixion has political ramifications; the charge of Deicide can be used to support anti-semitism. I don't have an easy answer to this, but the ostracising of people with opinions you see as uncongenial isn't an answer either.