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5/31/2008 7:00:25 PM A pastor at Barack Obama's church, who earlier mocked Hillary Clinton has apologised for his remarks. The pastor made severel references to Clinton during a sunday sermon at the church, that Obama has attended for the past twenty years. Reverend Michael Pfleger apologised after the Archbishop of Chicago publicly reprimanded him for "partisan campaigning". The priest had given a racially tinged critique of the so-called "white entitlement" that he claimed Clinton was guilty of. Pfleger also referred to Clinton's getting misty eyed, a day before the New Hampshire Primary. In a statement, Obama said he was deeply disappointed in what he called, the pastor's "divisive, backward-looking rhetoric." Reverberations from the Sunday sermon of a Roman Catholic priest, who mocked Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's home church continued to spread, after the priest offered an apology and the archbishop of Chicago gave him a public reprimand for "partisan campaigning." In a guest appearance at Trinity United Church of Christ, the priest, the Reverend Michael Pfleger, who resigned about two weeks ago from an unpaid position on the Obama campaign's Catholic advisory council, delivered a tirade against Mrs Clinton that included fake tears, a high-pitched voice and top-of-the-lungs screaming. Father Pfleger, a well-known longtime activist and friend of Mr Obama, issued an apology later quoting, "I regret the words, I chose on Sunday. These words are inconsistent with Senator Obama's life and message, and I am deeply sorry if they offended Senator Clinton or anyone else who saw them." The Clinton campaign repeated on Friday, for a second day, its displeasure with how Mr Obama has handled the situation, calling for him to reject Father Pfleger more forcefully. The flare-up was not well timed for Mr. Obama, who seemed to have finally put to rest similarly controversial remarks by his former Trinity pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah A Wright. In the latest statement to the media, the Government has quoteed, "Inconvenience to Ansar Burney is unfortunate and regrettable. Burney is always welcome to visit India."