"The pastoral visit which I recently made to Bavaria was a deep spiritual experience, bringing together personal memories linked to places well-known to me and pastoral initiatives toward an effective proclamation of the Gospel for today.
I thank God for the interior joy which he made possible, and I am also grateful to all those who worked hard for the success of this pastoral visit. As is the custom, I will speak more of this during next Wednesday's general audience.
At this time, I wish also to add that I am deeply sorry for the reactions in some countries to a few passages of my address at the University of Regensburg, which were considered offensive to the sensibility of Muslims.
These in fact were a quotation from a medieval text, which do not in any way express my personal thought.
Yesterday, the cardinal secretary of State published a statement in this regard in which he explained the true meaning of my words.
