Richard Williamson, the Holocaust-denying bishop who caused an uproar after Pope Benedict XVI lifted the excommunication against him, was caught scuffling with a reporter on Tuesday. The traditionalist Roman Catholic bishop was flying out of Argentina under a government expulsion order when a local television station caught him raising his fist and shoving television reporter Norberto Dupesso into a pole.

Last Thursday, Argentina's government ordered Bishop Williamson to leave the country or face expulsion, citing his failure to declare a job change as required by immigration law as well as his denials of the Holocaust, which it called "an insult" to humanity.

Pope Benedict XVI decision to lift a 20-year-old excommunication decree imposed on Williamson and three other bishops who had been consecrated without Vatican approval has caused an international uproar, particularly among Jewish groups.

The Anti-Defamation League found records of embarrassing speeches and letters by Williamson, where he was quoted in one 1989 speech as saying that "Jews made up the Holocaust, Protestants get their orders from the devil and the Vatican has sold its soul to liberalism."

He was quoted as asserting that "the Jews created the Holocaust so we would prostrate ourselves on our knees before them and approve of their new state of Israel."