AP
Berlin, Mar 28: A prominent German cardinal has urged Chancellor Angela Merkel to apologize to Pope Benedict XVI for her unusual public criticism over the Vatican's handling of the case of a Holocaust-denying bishop.
Merkel's spokesman, however, made clear that the German leader has no intention of revisiting the issue.
Cardinal Joachim Meisner, a prominent conservative cleric and archbishop of Cologne, told the Bild daily Friday that ``there were glitches at the Vatican (but) the chancellor also made a mistake.''
On February 3, Merkel called on the German-born pontiff to issue a ``very clear'' rejection of Holocaust denials after the Vatican lifted the excommunication of a bishop who had said he did not believe any Jews were gassed during the Nazi Holocaust.