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Pope Benedict XVI fractured his right wrist in a fall Friday morning while on vacation in northern Italy, the Vatican said.

At a Mass to wrap up his weeklong pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Benedict XVI tells the Israeli city's residents to work for peaceful coexistence. Celebrating Mass for tens of thousands of pilgrims in Nazareth, Pope Benedict XVI today urged Christians and Muslims to reject the "hatred and prejudice" that have produced sporadic conflict in the predominantly Arab city.

In an unusually personal letter, Benedict XVI admits mistakes in the handling of a Holocaust-denying bishop.

Pope lifts excommunication of four ultra-traditionalist bishops, angering Catholics, Jews.