09 Mar 2011, Rome, Italy --- Italy - Religion - Pope Benedict XVI --- Image by © Alessandra Benedetti/Corbis
29 Jun 2010, Rome, Italy --- Pope Benedict XVI celebrates a mass in St Peter's Basilca where thirty-eight new archbishops received the pallium, a woollen shawl symbolizing their bond to the pope, at the Vatican. --- Image by © Alessandra Benedetti/Corbis
24 Apr 2011, VATICAN CITY, ROMA, Vatican City State (Holy See) --- epa02700644 Pope Benedict XVI arrives to celebrate the Easter Holy Mass on 24 April 2011 at St Peter's square at The Vatican. Later in the day, the pontiff will deliver the Urbi and Orbi message and blessing. EPA/MAURIZIO BRAMBATTI --- Image by © MAURIZIO BRAMBATTI/epa/Corbis