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Pilgrims cram Via della Conciliazione in Rome, Sunday, April 24, 2005, as they attempt to attend the installation Mass of Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. Dignitaries and an estimated 500,000 pilgrims, many of them from the pontiff's native Germany, arrived in Rome for the ceremony to formally install Pope Benedict XVI and offer the pontiff a major chance to set the tone for his papacy. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca) |
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Pope Benedict XVI celebrates his installation Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 24, 2005. Dignitaries and an estimated 500,000 pilgrims, many of them from the pontiff's native Germany, arrived in Rome for the ceremony to formally install Pope Benedict XVI and offer the pontiff a major chance to set the tone for his papacy. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher) |
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In this photo made available by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI is greeted by Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, center, and his wife Franca Pilla in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, after his installment mass in St. Peter's Square, Sunday, April 24, 2005. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano) |
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Pope Benedict XVI greets the crowd in his popemobile after his inaugural Mass in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican, April 24, 2005. Setting the tone for his papacy, Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday urged humanity to re-discover God if it wanted to transform the world's 'deserts' of poverty, pain and privation into gardens of peace and progress. REUTERS/Tony Gentile |
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The statue of St. Peter's frames the installation Mass of Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 24, 2005. Dignitaries and an estimated 500,000 pilgrims, many of them from the pontiff's native Germany, arrived in Rome for the ceremony to formally install Pope Benedict XVI and offer the pontiff a major chance to set the tone for his papacy. (AP PhotoAndrew Medichini) |
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A large crowd fills St Peter's Square during the inaugural Mass of Pope Benedict in the Vatican, April 24, 2005. Pope Benedict took charge of his Church at a majestic inauguration on Sunday and set the tone for his papacy with a plea to humanity to return to God and transform a world he called a desert of pain and poverty. REUTERS/Jerry Lampen |
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Pope Benedict starts his procession with cardinals through the St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican before his inaugural Mass, April 24, 2005. Pope Benedict took charge of his Church at a majestic inauguration on Sunday and set the tone for his papacy with a plea to humanity to return to God and transform a world he called a desert of pain and poverty. REUTERS/Osservatore Romano/Pool |
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In this photo made available by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano,Pope Benedict XVI stands infront of the tomb of St. Peter's inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday, April 24, 2005 prior to his installment Mass in St. Peter's Square. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano) |
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Nuns watch St. Peter's Square during the installation Mass of Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican, Sunday, April 24, 2005. Dignitaries and an estimated 500,000 pilgrims, many of them from the pontiff's native Germany, arrived in Rome for the ceremony to formally install Pope Benedict XVI and offer the pontiff a major chance to set the tone for his papacy. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis) |