His comments were his strongest condemnation yet following a row involving a British bishop who questioned the details of the Nazis' extermination of the Jews.
The Pope told Jewish leaders visiting the Vatican that it was unacceptable for anyone, but especially a priest, to deny the Holocaust and the suffering of the Jews during the Second World War.
Benedict repeated a prayer recited by John Paul II in Jerusalem in March 2000, in which his predecessor had asked for "forgiveness" for the past persecution of Jews by Christians.
Pope Benedict said: "I now make his prayer my own."
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