Pope makes apology in the letter to bishops!

Rome. The affair with Bishop Richard Williamson who denies the Holocaust has damaged the Vatican. In a frank and unusually personal letter to all Catholic bishops call Pope Benedict XVI, the occurrence of a "misadventure".

After the Pope in January lifted EXCOMMUNICATION, ban, of four bishops belonging to the Conservative Brotherhood Sspx Vatican has been subjected to a media storm. Pope calls this "a controversy that took place with such vehemence that it was long since we experienced something similar."

Benedict XVI takes upon itself a part of the blame. Vatican inadequate communication, not least when it came to explain the decision to lift the ban meant. Many believed incorrectly that the bishops became forgiven and automatically entered again in the Roman Church.

The Pope will not go into on EXCOMMUNICATION and interview with Willliamson SVT had a relationship. But the fact that they were "an accident". The gesture was intended to strengthen reconciliation between Jews and Catholics - a path that is representative John Paul II embarked on by 1986 to visit the synagogue in Rome - was suddenly a opposite effect.

With the letter the Pope wants to restore peace within the church. In the letter, he points to what else might happen by quoting a paragraph from the apostle Paul's letter to gala parties: "0m you bite and tear at each other is the danger worth doing out of each other."

Pope examine himself for not listening enough to fotfolket in their church. "It saddens me that the Catholics in the end, should know better, thought it was justified to jump at me with disgust." An important lesson from this is that the church more need to use the Internet as an information source, writes Benedict XVI.

For Pope, it is now that in a short time to normalize relations with the world's Jews before his trip to Israel in May. Therefore, the Vatican get this conflict out.

The elements of Israel's Jewish leadership who met Benedict XVI at an audience in Rome on Thursday think the pope even clearer must reject new anti-Semitic statements.

The trip to Israel, scheduled long before the affair Williamson, will be a diplomatic feat of Ratzinger. With yesterday's letter shows he once again that he is an intellectual and personal Pope, who also is willing to assume the blame for what goes wrong. Something that even in modern times is very rare among popes.