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Posted: 2/25/2013 12:49:36 PM EST
Pope Benedict XVI leads his last Angelus prayer before stepping down in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican February 24, 2013. REUTERS/Osservatore Romano
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Posted: 2/25/2013 12:49:36 PM EST
Pope Benedict XVI leads his last Angelus prayer before stepping down in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican February 24, 2013. REUTERS/Osservatore Romano
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Posted: 2/25/2013 10:43:00 AM EST
Pope Benedict XVI leads his last Angelus prayer before stepping down in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican February 24, 2013. REUTERS/Osservatore Romano
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Posted: 2/25/2013 10:43:00 AM EST
Pope Benedict XVI leads his last Angelus prayer before stepping down in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican February 24, 2013. REUTERS/Osservatore Romano
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Posted: 2/25/2013 7:05:24 AM EST
Pope Benedict XVI leads his last Angelus prayer before stepping down in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican February 24, 2013. REUTERS/Osservatore Romano
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Posted: 2/25/2013 7:05:24 AM EST
Pope Benedict XVI leads his last Angelus prayer before stepping down in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican February 24, 2013. REUTERS/Osservatore Romano
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Posted: 2/24/2013 6:44:50 AM EST
Pope Benedict XVI gestures as he leads his last Sunday Angelus prayer before stepping down in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican February 24, 2013. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi
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Posted: 2/24/2013 6:44:50 AM EST
Pope Benedict XVI leaves at the end of his last Angelus prayer before stepping down in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican February 24, 2013. REUTERS/Max Rossi
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Posted: 2/24/2013 6:44:50 AM EST
Pope Benedict XVI leads his last Angelus prayer before stepping down in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican February 24, 2013. REUTERS/Max Rossi
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Posted: 2/23/2013 12:38:24 PM EST
FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2013 file photo, Pope Benedict XVI acknowledges a cheering crowd of faithful and pilgrims during his second-last Angelus prayer from the window of his apartments at the Vatican. As the first pontiff in six centuries to step down, Benedict has carved a new path for his successors who decide they cannot rule for life. But scholars say the repercussions could reach beyond just changing how pontiffs leave to ultimately shape perceptions about the authority and significance of the pontificate. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
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Posted: 2/23/2013 7:38:35 AM EST
Italian police, left, and carabinieri cars are parked outside St. Peter's Square, at the V atican, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013 As 100.000 pilgrims are expected to crowd St. Peter's Square for the last Angelus prayer of Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday morning, the Rome municipality is expected to increase by more then 30% the law enforcement agents, volunteers and transportation, while more then 2000 cctv security cameras will monitor the Roman territory with dozens aiming only at the areas surrounding the Vatican. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Posted: 2/23/2013 7:38:35 AM EST
In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI kneels in prayer at the end of a weeklong spiritual retreat, at the Vatican, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013. Benedict XVI has lamented the "evil, suffering and corruption" that has defaced God's creation in a final address to the officials who run the Vatican bureaucracy. Benedict spoke off-the-cuff Saturday at the end of a weeklong spiritual retreat coinciding with the Catholic Church's solemn Lenten season. For the past week, Italian Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi has led the Vatican on meditations that have covered everything from the family to denouncing the "divisions, dissent, careerism, jealousies" that afflict the Vatican bureaucracy. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)
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Posted: 2/21/2013 8:43:25 AM EST
Vatican Police guards patrol in front of the St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. Last week, 85-year-old Pope Benedict XVI shocked the world by announcing his resignation. He will step down on Feb. 28, planning to retreat to a life of prayer in a monastery behind the Vatican's ancient walls. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Posted: 2/17/2013 2:23:43 PM EST
Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithful during the Angelus noon prayer he celebrated from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013. Pope Benedict XVI blessed the faithful for the first time since announcing his resignation, cheered by an emotional crowd of tens of thousands of well-wishers from around the world. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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Posted: 2/17/2013 2:23:43 PM EST
Nuns pray prior to start of Pope Benedict XVI's Angelus prayer in St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013. Pope Benedict XVI is blessing the faithful from his window overlooking St. Peter's Square for the first time since announcing his resignation, cheered by an emotional crowd of tens of thousands of well-wishers from around the world. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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Posted: 2/17/2013 2:23:43 PM EST
Pope Benedict XVI acknowledges a cheering crowd of faithful and pilgrims during his second-last Angelus prayer from the window of his apartments at the Vatican, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013, before he resigns on Feb. 28, 2013. Pope Benedict XVI blessed a cheering crowd that Rome's mayor said topped 100,000 Sunday in his first appearance from his window overlooking St. Peter's Square since the pontiff stunned the world by announcing he was resigning. So many people flocked to the event -- which doubled as a logistical trial run for the next pope's installation -- some couldn't squeeze in or out of the vast space. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
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Posted: 2/17/2013 2:23:43 PM EST
A priest displays a placard in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican as he follows Pope Benedict XVI reciting the Angelus prayer from the window of his apartments, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013. Pope Benedict XVI blessed the faithful from his window overlooking St. Peter's Square for the first time since announcing his resignation, cheered by an emotional crowd of tens of thousands of well-wishers from around the world. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)
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Posted: 2/17/2013 12:58:45 PM EST
Pope Benedict XVI waves as he leads the Sunday Angelus prayer in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican February 17, 2013. REUTERS/Max Rossi
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Posted: 2/17/2013 12:58:45 PM EST
Pope Benedict XVI waves as he leads the Sunday Angelus prayer in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican February 17, 2013. REUTERS/Max Rossi
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Posted: 2/17/2013 8:51:59 AM EST
Pope Benedict XVI waves as he leads the Sunday Angelus prayer in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican February 17, 2013. Pope Benedict, speaking before a larger than usual crowd at his penultimate Sunday address, asked the faithful to pray for him and for the next pope. REUTERS/Max Rossi
