Pope Benedict XVI has acknowledged Vatican mistakes in the handling of the controversy over a Holocaust-denying bishop and said he was saddened by attacks against him, even by members of his own church.
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Mr Irving is suing over Prof Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books over the 1994 book, Denying The Holocaust: The Growing Assault On Truth And Memory, which he says has generated "waves of hatred" against him.