Mass Catholic Defections?

Comments from a reader "note that the Taipei Times is claiming that Catholics are leaving the church because reverence to the Holocaust is more important than reverence to the pope" — Catholics leaving over reinstatement of Holocaust denier.

The article quotes "a German Vatican expert" about "a wave of faithful leaving in droves," and then clarifies that "[i]n Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Catholics have the option of formally quitting the Church by registering their exit with local authorities." This leads me to believe that those "leaving" were already long-gone to begin with, as it is highly unlikely that any regular mass-goer would be so ignorant as to not understand this tempest in a teacup* for what it is. Most likely this "wave of exits" is of folks who were registered as Catholics by their parents but never fully catechized who have now decided to make a cheap (but in reality the most costly) gesture of moral grandstanding to atone for the guilt they feel about their National Socialist forebears.

*Comments from a reader who is not Roman Catholic explain call this "[a] predictable storm of anti-Roman rubbish raining down, fuelled by perhaps wilful theological ignorance." He concludes, "I'm nothing to do with the racist pseudo-science of the Nazis nor will I have a go at the bishop to get some spurious moral cred, satisfying the lusts of the politically correct."