The dispute has cast a shadow, though perhaps only a small one, over the Easter celebrations at one of Jerusalem's best known landmarks, the golden-domed Mary Magdalene church on the Mount of Olives.
As dusk fell, the Pope returned to Jerusalem where he visited the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives, praying in a basilica built on the spot where the gospels recount Jesus' torment on the night before he was betrayed and arrested.