Pope Benedict XVI waves in front of the Nativity scene at the end of 'Te Deum' prayer in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican , Saturday, Dec. 31, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithful during the Angelus prayer from his private apartment at the Vatican December 31, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI shakes hands with Vice-President and Head of Iran Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization Esfandiar Rahim-Moshaee, flanked by Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, prior to their meeting at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI leaves at the end of his weekly general audience at the Paul VI hall in Vatican December 27, 2006
 

Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithful during the Angelus prayer from his private apartment at the Vatican December 26, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI blesses pilgrims during his Urbi et Orbi message (to the city and the world) from the central balcony of Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican December 25, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI holds his pastoral staff as he celebrates midnight mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican December 25, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI holds a candle as he appears at the window of his private apartment following a ceremony for the unveiling of the Vatican nativity scene in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican December 24, 2006.
 

Pope Benedict XVI is framed by the branches of a Christmas tree as he delivers his blessing during the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's square at the Vatican , Sunday, Dec. 24, 2006.

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone speaks during a ceremony for dedicate to Pope John Paul II the Rome's Termini Railway Station, Rome, Dec.23, 2006.

Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa gives a meditation in the presence of Benedict XVI, Cardinals, Bishops and Prelates, Redemptoris Mater Chapel at the Vatican, Dec.22, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI wears a red velvet cape trimmed in ermine during his an end-of-year speech to cardinals and bishops at the Vatican, Dec. 22, 2006.

A boy browses some pages during press conference for the presentation of the stickers book "The Guardian Angels of the Pope", 500 years of the Papal Swiss Guard, Rome, Dec.21, 2006.

A 33 metre-tall Christmas tree is lit during a ceremony in St-Peter's square at the Vatican, 20 December 2006. The tree is a gift to Pope Benedict XVI from Calabria.

Pope Benedict XVI is greeted by a zampognaro (bagpipe player) at the end of his weekly general audience at the Vatican December 20, 2006

 

Pope Benedict XVI has named S.E.Paolo Romeo as a new Archbishop of Palermo, today 19 December 2006.

Nativity scene figures from Tesero in northern Italy's Trent region have been lent to the Vatican for its annual display in St. Peter's Square. The life-size figures are sculpted by Tesero artists out of local spruce trees. The Nativity scene in St. Peter's Square will be unveiled Dec. 24 and remain in the square until the Feb. 2 feast of the Presentation of the Lord.

A challenge between Vatican employers soccer team, Swiss Guards soccer team and Vatican Museum employers soccer team at St.Peter's parish club, Rome, Dec.18, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithful during the Angelus prayer from his private apartments overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican December 17, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI meets Nikola Gruevski, President of the Government of Republic of Macedonia during a private audience at the Vatican, Dec.16, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI greets the head of Greece's Orthodox Church Archbishop Christodoulos (L) at the Vatican December 14, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI, flanked at left by Cardinal Camillo Ruini delivers his blessing at the end of a mass celebrated for the youths of Rome's universities, in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican , Thursday, Dec. 14, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI meets Israel 's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert during a private audience at the Vatican, Dec.13, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI waves to faithful as he arrives for his weekly general audience at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec.13, 2006.

Workers erect a 35-metre high Christmas tree at St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on early morning December 13, 2006. The tree, that is donated from a different part of Europe each year, came from the forests of Calabria in southern Italy.

Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino, President of Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, speaks during a press conference for the presentation of Pope Benedict XVI's speech for the 2007 World Peace Day, at the Vatican, Dec.12, 2006.

Cardinal Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, Archpriest of St. Paul's Outside-the-Walls Basilica, speaks during the press conference for the presentation of reinstate works on St.Paul Tomb at the Vatican, Dec.11, 2006.

Pope John Paul II, right, is met by Chilean President Gen. Augusto Pinochet at the Arturo Merino Benitez Airport in Santiago, Chile April 1, 1987. Pinochet, the fierce anti-communist dictator who ruled Chile with an iron fist from 1973 to 1990, died Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006 from heart complications, the Santiago Military hospital reported. He was 91.

Pope Benedict XVI waves to pilgrims and faithful from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's square at the Vatican during the Angelus prayer Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI burns incense during a ceremony to consecrate a new church in Rome, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI, wearing an ermine-trimmed cape, prays in front of the Virgin Mary statue in Rome's Piazza di Spagna Square (Spanish Steps) on the occasion of the Immaculate Conception holiday, Friday, Dec. 8, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI waves to pilgrims and faithful from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's square at the Vatican during the Angelus prayer on the occasion of the Immaculate Conception holiday, Friday, Dec. 8, 2006.

A firefighter puts a flowers crown on the Immaculate Conception statue on the Spain piazza in Rome, Dec. 08, 2006. Pope Benedict XVI will bless the statue in the afternoon during his annual pray.

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Secretary of State of the Holy See, during the inauguration of the exhibition "Habemus Papam" at San Giovanni in Laterano Basilica, Rome, Dec.7, 2006.

Enzo Bianchi speaks during a conference of the 25th anniversary of Centro Astalli,a colloquium on Migratory Movements in the Pontifical University Gregoriana in Rome.December 7, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI kisses the infant child of an Iraqi family at the end of his weekly general audience at the Vatican December 6, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithful during Angelus prayer from his private apartments overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican December 3, 2006.

Pope Benedict celebrates the First Vespers on the occasion of the first week of Advent in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Dec.02, 2006.
 

Pope Benedict XVI and Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I arrive to the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. George at the Orthodox Patriarchate in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI visits the Blue Mosque without his shoes in Istanbul November 30, 2006. The Pope visited Istanbul's Blue Mosque on Thursday during his trip to predominantly Muslim Turkey, becoming only the second Roman Catholic Pontiff to ever enter a mosque

 

Pope Benedict XVI and Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I arrive to the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. George at the Orthodox Patriarchate in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2006

 

Pope Benedict XVI is seen with Ali Bardakoglu, head of Turkey's religious affairs, during their meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006.
 

Turkish people protests during a rally against the forthcoming visit of Pope Benedict XVI November 26 in Istanbul, Turkey. Benedict XVI will arrive November 28 in Turkey, his first visit to a Muslim country as pontiff
 

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams attends a mass celebrating the feast of Christ the King and marking the Fortieth Anniversary of the Anglican Centre in Rome, at S.Sabina Basilica, Rome, Nov.26, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI blesses the faithfull in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, 26 November 2006, during his traditionnal Angelus prayer. More police will protect Pope Benedict XVI when he visits Turkey next week than were deployed for US President George W. Bush, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul announced today

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams (R) attends an Evening Prayer at Santa Maria sopra Minerva with Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor (L), Rome, Nov.24, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI (R) meets the President of the Honduras Manuel Zelaya Rosales during a private audience in the Vatican November 24, 2006.

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams looks on during a press conference in Rome, Friday Nov. 24, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI and Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams shake hands after signing a joint statement after 25 minutes of private talks during their meeting at the Vatican Thursday, Nov. 23, 2006.

Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, attends a prayer service in memory of the seven Melanesian Brother, Anglican Christian, with the Community of Sant'Egidio in the S.Bartolomeo church, Rome, Nov.22, 2006.

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone meets European Union External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner (R) during his weekly general audience at the Vatican November 22, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI gestures while addressing pilgrims and faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square for his weekly general audience at the Vatican Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2006.

Pictures of the Pope calendar are displayed in the Italian Catholic weekly Famiglia Cristiana (Catholic Family) news desk in Rome, Wednesday Nov. 22, 2006.

Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams (L) and Cardinal Walter Kasper (R), president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, arrive at St Anselmo’s, the Benedictine university in Rome, Nov.21, 2006.

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state, attends a mass to inaugurate the new academic year of the Catholic University, Rome, Nov. 21, 2006.

Mexican Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan , president of the Ponti fical Council for Health Care Ministry speaks during a press conference for the XXI International Conference on " The Pastoral Aspects of the Treatment of Infectious Diseases " Nov 21, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI welcomes Italian President Giorgio Napolitano during an official visit the pontiff granted him at the Vatican Monday, Nov. 20, 2006.

Cardinal Nicholas Cheong Jinsuk , Archbishop of Seoul ( Korea ) attends a mass to take position in his titular church "Santa Maria Immacolata di Lourdes", during a ceremony, in Rome, Nov. 19, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI holds his weekly Angelus blessing from a window of his private apartment overlooking St. Peter's square at the Vatican November 19, 2006
 

Pope Benedict XVI meets German President Horst Köhler (L), during a private audience at the Vatican, Nov. 18, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI presides over a meeting with Vatican top officials at the Vatican Sala Bologna Hall, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI leads his weekly general audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican November 15, 2006
 

Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino (C), President of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants speaks during a press conference for the presentation of Pope Benedict XVI's message for the 93th World Day of Migrants (Jan 14, 2007) at the Vatican, Nov.14, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI holds his weekly Angelus blessing from a window of his private apartment overlooking St. Peter's square at the Vatican November 12, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI meets President of Cyprus Tassos Papadopoulos at his private library at the eve of his travel to Turkey, November 10, 2006, in Vatican City.

The Cover of new Pope Benedict XVI's 2007 Calendar will sell with "Famiglia Cristiana" magazine next 23th of November.

Pope Benedict XVI leads his weekly general audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican November 8, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI meets Hungary's President of the Republic Laszlo Solyom (R) during a private audience at the Vatican, Nov. 6, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI delivers his blessing during the Angelus prayer, in St. Peter's square at the Vatican , Sunday, Nov. 5, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI arrives at St.Peter's basilica at the Vatican, 04 November 2006, to celebrate a mass for the Cardinals and Bishops who died in the last year.

Pope Benedict waves to the faithful as he leaves the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome November 3, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithful during the Angelus prayer for the All Saints Day in St. Peter's square, at the Vatican, Nov. 1, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI receives help to remove his mitre as he conducts the Holy Mass for All Saints' Day in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican November 1, 2006.

Pope Benedict on Tuesday 24 Oct. named Cardinal Hummes to head the Vatican's powerful department that oversees Roman Catholic priests around the world.

Pope Benedict XVI holds his weekly Angelus blessing from a window of his private apartment overlooking St. Peter's square at the Vatican October 29, 2006.

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican Secretary of State, attends a mass with an international delegation of military ordinariates in the S.Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Oct.27, 2006.

S.Ecc. Mons.Angelo Comastri (R), Archbishop of Loreto and Father Jarek Cielecki (L), editor in chief of Vatican News Service, light up a candel from Pope John Paul II's tomb to carry to the church of Niegowic (Poland) for the 60th anniversary of John Paul II's priest ordination.

Pope Benedict XVI waves to faithful as he is driven through the crowd prior to his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2006.

Archbishop of Krakow, Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz attends a mass to take position in his titular church Santa Maria del Popolo, during a ceremony, in Rome, Oct. 24, 2006.

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone speaks during the presentation of an historical exhibition on first 150 years of Osservatore Romano, Valentini Palace, Rome, Oct. 24, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI delivers his speech inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Monday, Oct. 23, 2006, during a Mass for the beginning of the Academic Year of the Ecclesiastic Universities. At left is Polish Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, Prefect of Catholic Education.

Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithful during the Angelus prayer in St. Peter's square, at the Vatican, Sunday,Oct. 22, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI , flanked by Cardinal Camillo Ruini, left, and Pontificial Lateran University rector Bishop Rino Fisichella, right, attends a ceremony to inaugurate the new academic year of the Pontificial Lateran University, in Rome, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI blesses the coffin of Italian Cardinal Mario Francesco Pompedda in Saint Peter's basilica at the Vatican, 20 Octobre 2006. Cardinal Mario Francesco Pompedda, member of the papal electoral college died, 18 Octobre 2006, at the age of 77.

Cardinal Camillo Ruini, President of Italian Bishop Conference, speaks during the closing ceremony of meeting of the nation's Bishops on the state of the Roman Catholic Church in Verona, Oct.20, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI celebrates an open-air Mass at the Bentegodi stadium during the meeting of the nation's Bishops on the state of the Roman Catholic Church in Verona, northern Italy October 19, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI looks on during the meeting of the nation's Bishops on the state of the Roman Catholic Church in Verona, northern Italy, October 19, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI 's private secretary, the 49-year-old Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, changes the pontiff's skull cap during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican , Wednesday Oct. 18, 2006.

Opening ceremony of the Meeting of the nation's Bishops on the state of the Roman Catholic Church at Verona's Arena, northern Italy October 16, 2006.

Priests and delegates arrives to meeting of the nation's Bishops on the state of the Roman Catholic Church in Verona, Oct.16, 2006.

Tapestries showing new saints Italian nun Rosa Venerini (L), Mexican bishop Rafael Guizar (2nd L), Italian priest Filippo Smaldone and Indiana nun Theodore Guerin (R) hang on St. Peter's Basilica as Pope Benedict XVI celebrates the canonisation ceremony in St. Peter's square at the Vatican October 15, 2006.

The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, gives a speech after being awarded a doctorate Honoris Causa from the University of Rome, Oct. 14, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI waves the faithfull at the end of a prayer and mass celebrated by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone for the faithful of Saint Padre Pio, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI meets Italy's premier Romano Prodi for to their private audience at the Vatican, Friday, Oct. 13, 2006.

French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre ordained new priests, Econe, Swiss, Jul. 15, 1988 (filephoto) .Pope Benedict XVI has decided to loosen restrictions on use of the old Latin Mass, a Vatican official said yesterday, a major concession to ultratraditionalist Catholics, who split with the Vatican to protest reforms, Rome, Oct.12,2006
 

Pope Benedict XVI receives a gift from Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski during a private audience at the Vatican, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2006.

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone (R) delivers his address at the inauguration of the 'Petros Eni' exhibit, at the Vatican , Wednesday Oct. 11, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI prays during his weekly Wednesday general audience in Saint Peter's square at the Vatican October 11, 2006

Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, archpriest of S.Paolo out of the wall Basilica, speaks during a conference on Israel and Holy See relationship at Saint Peter Association in Rome, Oct.10, 2006.

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the new Vatican secretary of state, celebrates a mass in Santa Maria della Speranza, for the opening year of the University Pontificial Salesian, Rome, Oct.10, 2006.

Card.Keeler was injured an accident in Italy that killed another priest and injured a third, the Archdiocese of Baltimore said. Keeler and the two other priests were driving Saturday, Oct. 7, through the city of Terni, about 60 miles outside of Rome, when a car struck the passenger side of their vehicle, archdiocese spokesman Sean Caine said.

Archbishop of Bordeaux, France, Cardinal Jean-Pierre Bernard Ricard kisses a cross, a gesture which symbolizes the taking possession of his titular church, Sant' Agostino, during a ceremony, in Rome, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2006.
 

Pope Benedict XVI waves to pilgrims gathered in St Peter's Square at the Vatican, from the window of his private apartment, prior to his Angelus prayer 08, October 2006
 

Pope Benedict XVI blesses some unidentified Italian majors upon his arrival for an audience with pilgrims from northern italian region Emilia-Romagna in Paul VI hall at the Vatican, 07 October 2006.

Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins (R), prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints speaks during an Ordinary Concistory with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican, Jul. 1, 2006. File photo. Pope Benedict XVI will preside at the second canonization ceremony of his pontificate on Oct 15.

Pope Benedict XVI, center, meets with Austrian President Heinz Fischer, right, and his wife Margit Fischer, left, at the Vatican, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI kisses a boy during his weekly audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican October 4, 2006.

Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, Archivist of Vatican Secret Archives, speaks during a press conference for the presentation of an historical exhibition on first 150 years of Osservatore Romano, Valentini Palace, Rome, Oct. 3, 2006. On the right Mr. Enrico Gasbarra, President of Province of Rome.

Cardinal Sean Patrick O'Malley, Archbishop of Boston (USA), attends a mass to take position in his titular church of Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome, Oct. 1, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI greets faithful after the Angelus prayer in his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo in the outskirts of Rome, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2006.

Pope Benedict XVI meets His Beatitude Mar Emmanuel III Delly, Patriarch of Babylon for the Chaldeans, during a private audience at his summer residence of Castelgandolfo outside Rome September 30, 2006.