The Pope

Pope Benedict XVI arrives in the pope-mobile to celebrates mass on the Obradoiro Square in Santiago de Compostela, on November 6, 2010 during a two-day visit in Spain. Pope Benedict XVI warned today of a very strong clash between faith and modernity in Spain and he called for dialogue, not confrontation. The pontiff said an anti-clerical movement erupted in Spain in the 1930s in the run-up to the Spanish Civil War.

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - SEPTEMBER 15: Florists make final preparations to the stage at Bellahouston Park ahead of tomorrow's visit by Pope Benedict XVI on September 15, 2010 in Glasgow, Scotland. The Pope will give mass in the park following his visit to Edinburgh where he will be met by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the Palace of Holyrood and attend a lunch with Cardinal Keith O�Brien before travelling to Glasgow to give mass.

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - SEPTEMBER 15: Florists make final preparations to the stage at Bellahouston Park ahead of tomorrow's visit by Pope Benedict XVI on September 15, 2010 in Glasgow, Scotland. The Pope will give mass in the park following his visit to Edinburgh where he will be met by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the Palace of Holyrood and attend a lunch with Cardinal Keith O�Brien before travelling to Glasgow to give mass.

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - SEPTEMBER 15: A stall worker at Bellahouston Park holds a t-shirt from IVS Group Limited, Merchandise Management on September 15, 2010 in Glasgow, Scotland. The Pope will give mass in the park following his visit to Edinburgh where he will be met by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the Palace of Holyrood and attend a lunch with Cardinal Keith O�Brien before travelling to Glasgow to give mass.

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - SEPTEMBER 15: Florists make final preparations to the stage at Bellahouston Park ahead of tomorrow's visit by Pope Benedict XVI on September 15, 2010 in Glasgow, Scotland. The Pope will give mass in the park following his visit to Edinburgh where he will be met by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the Palace of Holyrood and attend a lunch with Cardinal Keith O�Brien before travelling to Glasgow to give mass.

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - SEPTEMBER 15: A stall worker at Bellahouston Park holds a plate from by IVS Group Limited, Merchandise Management on September 15, 2010 in Glasgow, Scotland. The Pope will give mass in the park following his visit to Edinburgh where he will be met by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the Palace of Holyrood and attend a lunch with Cardinal Keith O�Brien before travelling to Glasgow to give mass.

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - SEPTEMBER 15: Children rehearse on stage l at Bellahouston Park ahead of tomorrow's visit by Pope Benedict XVI on September 15, 2010 in Glasgow, Scotland. The Pope will give mass in the park following his visit to Edinburgh where he will be met by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the Palace of Holyrood and attend a lunch with Cardinal Keith O�Brien before travelling to Glasgow to give mass.

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - SEPTEMBER 15: Workers make final preparations to the stage at Bellahouston Park ahead of tomorrow's visit by Pope Benedict XVI on September 15, 2010 in Glasgow, Scotland. The Pope will give mass in the park following his visit to Edinburgh where he will be met by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the Palace of Holyrood and attend a lunch with Cardinal Keith O�Brien before travelling to Glasgow to give mass.

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - SEPTEMBER 15: Florists make final preparations to the stage at Bellahouston Park ahead of tomorrow's visit by Pope Benedict XVI on September 15, 2010 in Glasgow, Scotland. The Pope will give mass in the park following his visit to Edinburgh where he will be met by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the Palace of Holyrood and attend a lunch with Cardinal Keith O�Brien before travelling to Glasgow to give mass.

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - SEPTEMBER 15: Workers make final preparations at Bellahouston Park ahead of this week's visit by Pope Benedict XVI on September 15, 2010 in Glasgow, Scotland. The Pope will give mass in the park following his visit to Edinburgh where he will be met by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the Palace of Holyrood and attend a lunch with Cardinal Keith O�Brien before travelling to Glasgow to give mass.

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - SEPTEMBER 15: Stall workers at Bellahouston Park unpack pope memorabilia by IVS Group Limited, Merchandise Management on September 15, 2010 in Glasgow, Scotland. The Pope will give mass in the park following his visit to Edinburgh where he will be met by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the Palace of Holyrood and attend a lunch with Cardinal Keith O�Brien before travelling to Glasgow to give mass.

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - SEPTEMBER 15: Workers make final preparations to the stage at Bellahouston Park ahead of tomorrow's visit by Pope Benedict XVI on September 15, 2010 in Glasgow, Scotland. The Pope will give mass in the park following his visit to Edinburgh where he will be met by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the Palace of Holyrood and attend a lunch with Cardinal Keith O�Brien before travelling to Glasgow to give mass.

Youngsters stand in front of the historic St. Joseph's Catholic Cathedral on Wangfujing in Beijing on November 21, 2010. China said on November 20 it had ordained a bishop in a ceremony that had not been approved by the pope, overriding objections by the Vatican, which has said it would hurt ties. Official tallies put the number of Catholics in China at 5.7 million, which includes members of an official Church with links to the state and an unofficial 'clandestine' Church that says it derives its legitimacy from the pope.

A man walks past the historic St. Joseph's Catholic Cathedral on Wangfujing in Beijing on November 21, 2010. China said on November 20 it had ordained a bishop in a ceremony that had not been approved by the pope, overriding objections by the Vatican, which has said it would hurt ties. Official tallies put the number of Catholics in China at 5.7 million, which includes members of an official Church with links to the state and an unofficial 'clandestine' Church that says it derives its legitimacy from the pope.

A man walks past the historic St. Joseph's Catholic Cathedral on Wangfujing in Beijing on November 21, 2010. China said on November 20 it had ordained a bishop in a ceremony that had not been approved by the pope, overriding objections by the Vatican, which has said it would hurt ties. Official tallies put the number of Catholics in China at 5.7 million, which includes members of an official Church with links to the state and an unofficial 'clandestine' Church that says it derives its legitimacy from the pope.

A man walks past the historic St. Joseph's Catholic Cathedral on Wangfujing in Beijing on November 21, 2010. China said on November 20 it had ordained a bishop in a ceremony that had not been approved by the pope, overriding objections by the Vatican, which has said it would hurt ties. Official tallies put the number of Catholics in China at 5.7 million, which includes members of an official Church with links to the state and an unofficial 'clandestine' Church that says it derives its legitimacy from the pope.

Youngsters stand in front of the historic St. Joseph's Catholic Cathedral on Wangfujing in Beijing on November 21, 2010. China said on November 20 it had ordained a bishop in a ceremony that had not been approved by the pope, overriding objections by the Vatican, which has said it would hurt ties. Official tallies put the number of Catholics in China at 5.7 million, which includes members of an official Church with links to the state and an unofficial 'clandestine' Church that says it derives its legitimacy from the pope.

French Prime Minister François Fillon (R) and French Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois (L) accompany Pope Benedict XVI at the Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrenees airport on September 15, 2008 at the end of the Pope's visit in the French shrine town of Lourdes. The Pope's visit marked the 150th anniversary of a peasant girl's reported visions of the Virgin Mary in a grotto.

Workmen put the final touches to the stage area where Pope Benedict XVI will preside over a Celebration Mass later this week, in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, in Scotland on September 15, 2010. Pope Benedict XVI begins a historic state visit to Britain Thursday hoping to improve strained links between Catholics and Anglicans but facing protests over his stance on a range of issues. The pope will visit Edinburgh, Glasgow, London and Birmingham in central England, where the highlight of the four-day trip takes place with the beatification mass of 19th century English cardinal John Henry Newman.

EDINBURGH, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 15: Barbara Blaine (L) and Barbara Dorris hold pictures of them as children on the steps of St Mary's Metropolitan Cathedral on September 15, 2010 in Edinburgh, Scotland. A protest was held today outside the Church by three women who were sexually abused by Priests in their childhood. The women belong to SNAP, (the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests), and are calling for the names of Catholic clerics involved in sexual offences to be made available to better safe guard children within the church. Victims are travelling from around the world to protest against or seek reconciliation from the Pope during his upcoming state visit.

LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 15: Final preparations are made to the Hyde Park venue, where the Pope will hold a Prayer Vigil, ahead of the Papal Visit on September 15, 2010 in London, England. Pope Benedict XVI is conducting the first state visit to the UK by a Pontiff. During the four day visit Pope Benedict will celebrate mass, conduct a prayer vigil as well as beatify Cardinal Newman at an open air mass in Cofton Park. His Holiness will meet The Queen as well as political and religious representatives.

A man sweeps the stage area in Bellahouston Park in Glasgow, Scotland, on September 16, 2010, ahead of a Celebration of Mass by Pope Benedict XVI later Thursday. The Pope arrives Thursday for a historic state visit to Britain clouded by a row sparked by one of his aides who described it as an 'aggressively' secular 'Third World country'.

VATICAN CITY, VATICAN - OCTOBER 13: Australian pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's square to attend the Pope Benedict XVI's weekly audience on October 13, 2010 in Vatican City, Vatican. The Pontiff will name blessed sister Mary MacKillop's known also as Mary of the Cross as Australian first Saint in a Canonisation ceremony in St. Peter's square on next Sunday.

BARCELONA, SPAIN - NOVEMBER 03: Pedestrinas walk by barriers which'll be used during the Pope Benedit XVI's visit on November 3, 2010 in Barcelona, Spain. Pope Benedit XVI will visit Barcelona to consecrate La Sagragrada Familia Basilica next Sunday, November 7, 2010.

Young girls hold papers forming the name of the pope druing a mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI at the Obradoiro Square, in front of the Santiago de Compostela cathedral, on November 6, 2010 during a two-day visit in Spain. Pope Benedict XVI warned today of a very strong clash between faith and modernity in Spain and he called for dialogue, not confrontation. The pontiff said an anti-clerical movement erupted in Spain in the 1930s in the run-up to the Spanish Civil War.

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, SPAIN - NOVEMBER 06: Prince Felipe of Spain and Princess Letizia of Spain arrive to receive Pope Benedict XVI at the Lavacolla airport on November 6, 2010 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The Pope is on a two-day visit to Spain which includes an open-air Mass and a visit to Barcelona tomorrow.

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, SPAIN - NOVEMBER 06: Prince Felipe of Spain speaks as Princess Letizia of Spain and Pope Benedict XVI look on at the Lavacolla airport on November 6, 2010 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The Pope is on a two-day visit to Spain which includes an open-air Mass and a visit to Barcelona tomorrow.

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, SPAIN - NOVEMBER 06: Pope Benedict XVI (C) celebrates an open-air mass in front of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral on Obradoiro square on November 6, 2010 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The Pope is on a two-day visit to Spain.

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, SPAIN - NOVEMBER 06: Prince Felipe of Spain (L) and Princess Letizia of Spain arrive to attend an open-air mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI in front of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral on Obradoiro square on November 6, 2010 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The Pope is on a two-day visit to Spain.

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, SPAIN - NOVEMBER 06: Prince Felipe of Spain (2L) and Princess Letizia of Spain (C) attend an open-air mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI in front of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral on Obradoiro square on November 6, 2010 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The Pope is on a two-day visit to Spain.

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, SPAIN - NOVEMBER 06: A general view of an open-air mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI in front of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral on Obradoiro square on November 6, 2010 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The Pope is on a two-day visit to Spain.

Columns and arches of the Sagrada Familia are seen during a solemn mass celebrated by the Pope Benedict XVI and consecrating Barcelona's famous temple in a basilica on November 7, 2010 during his two-day visit in Spain. Pope Benedict XVI warned today of a very strong clash between faith and modernity in Spain and he called for dialogue, not confrontation. The pontiff said an anti-clerical movement erupted in Spain in the 1930s in the run-up to the Spanish Civil War.

Pope John Paul II sits in an open top pope mobile as it drives through the streets of Pompeii, 07 October 2003, after praying for world peace at a shrine to the Virgin Mary. The 83 years old pontiff's trip in the southern italian town of Pompeii, his 143rd visit in Italy, comes a week after senior Vatican cardinals appeared to have begun preparing the world's more than one billion Catholics for the Pope's death.

AFP PICTURE OF THE YEAR 2010Columns and arches of the Sagrada Familia are seen during a solemn mass celebrated by the Pope Benedict XVI and consecrating Barcelona's famous temple in a basilica on November 7, 2010 during his two-day visit in Spain. Pope Benedict XVI warned today of a very strong clash between faith and modernity in Spain and he called for dialogue, not confrontation. The pontiff said an anti-clerical movement erupted in Spain in the 1930s in the run-up to the Spanish Civil War.

Columns and arches of the Sagrada Familia are seen during a solemn mass celebrated by the Pope Benedict XVI and consecrating Barcelona's famous temple in a basilica on November 7, 2010 during his two-day visit in Spain. Pope Benedict XVI warned today of a very strong clash between faith and modernity in Spain and he called for dialogue, not confrontation. The pontiff said an anti-clerical movement erupted in Spain in the 1930s in the run-up to the Spanish Civil War.

German journalist Peter Seewald, a Catholic convert, listens during a press conference for the release of his book entitled 'Light of the World: The Pope, the Church and the Signs of the Times' based on 20 hours of interviews with Pope Benedict XVI, on November 23, 2010 in John Paul II press room at the Vatican. Publishers released a controversial new book of interviews Tuesday in which Pope Benedict XVI says for the first time he approves of condom use to reduce the risk of sexually transmitted diseases.

Workmen put the final touches to the stage area where Pope Benedict XVI will preside over a Celebration Mass tomorrow, in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, in Scotland on September 15, 2010. Pope Benedict XVI begins a historic state visit to Britain Thursday hoping to improve strained links between Catholics and Anglicans but facing protests over his stance on a range of issues. The pope will visit Edinburgh, Glasgow, London and Birmingham in central England, where the highlight of the four-day trip takes place with the beatification mass of 19th century English cardinal John Henry Newman.

EDINBURGH, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 15: Barbara Blaine holds a picture of her as a child on the steps of St Mary's Metropolian Cathedral on September 15, 2010 in Edinburgh, Scotland. A protest was held today outside the Church by three women who were sexually abused by Priests in their childhood. The women belong to SNAP, (the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests), and are calling for the names of Catholic clerics involved in sexual offences to be made available to better safe guard children within the church. Victims are travelling from around the world to protest against or seek reconciliation from the Pope during his upcoming state visit.

A worker cleans the square in front of Westminster Roman Catholic Cathedral in London on September 15, 2010. Pope Benedict XVI begins a historic state visit to Britain Thursday hoping to improve strained links between Catholics and Anglicans but facing protests over his stance on a range of issues. The pope will visit Edinburgh, Glasgow, London and Birmingham in central England, where the highlight of the four-day trip takes place with the beatification mass of 19th century English cardinal John Henry Newman.

LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 15: Final preparations are made to the Hyde Park venue, where the Pope will hold a Prayer Vigil, ahead of the Papal Visit on September 15, 2010 in London, England. Pope Benedict XVI is conducting the first state visit to the UK by a Pontiff. During the four day visit Pope Benedict will celebrate mass, conduct a prayer vigil as well as beatify Cardinal Newman at an open air mass in Cofton Park. His Holiness will meet The Queen as well as political and religious representatives.

LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 15: Final preparations are made to the Hyde Park venue, where the Pope will hold a Prayer Vigil, ahead of the Papal Visit on September 15, 2010 in London, England. Pope Benedict XVI is conducting the first state visit to the UK by a Pontiff. During the four day visit Pope Benedict will celebrate mass, conduct a prayer vigil as well as beatify Cardinal Newman at an open air mass in Cofton Park. His Holiness will meet The Queen as well as political and religious representatives.

LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 15: Members of the public peek through a gap in a temporary fence at the Hyde Park venue, where the Pope will hold a Prayer Vigil, ahead of the Papal Visit on September 15, 2010 in London, England. Pope Benedict XVI is conducting the first state visit to the UK by a Pontiff. During the four day visit Pope Benedict will celebrate mass, conduct a prayer vigil as well as beatify Cardinal Newman at an open air mass in Cofton Park. His Holiness will meet The Queen as well as political and religious representatives.

Pope Benedict XVI sits during a meeting of religious leaders at St Mary's University College, in Twickenham, south-west London on September 17, 2010. British police arrested five men Friday on suspicion of plotting a 'terrorist' attack linked to the historic state visit of Pope Benedict XVI. The Vatican insisted that the pope was 'calm' following the arrests and that it had full confidence in Scotland Yard's ability to protect him.

British Prime Minister David Cameron (L) bids farewell to Pope Benedict XVI at Birmingham International Airport, England, on September 19, 2010, after a four day visit to Britain by the Pope. Pope Benedict XVI flew out of Britain Sunday after an historic four-day state visit, as Prime Minister David Cameron said he had made people 'sit up and think.'

VATICAN CITY, VATICAN - OCTOBER 13: Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh Cardinal Keith O'Brien (R) attends the Pope Benedict XVI's weekly audience in St. Peter's Square on October 13, 2010 in Vatican City, Vatican. The Pontiff will name blessed sister Mary MacKillop's known also as Mary of the Cross as Australian first Saint in a Canonisation ceremony in St. Peter's square on next Sunday.

VATICAN CITY, VATICAN - OCTOBER 13: Australian pilgrims gather in St. Peter's square to attend the Pope Benedict XVI's weekly audience on October 13, 2010 in Vatican City, Vatican. The Pontiff will name blessed sister Mary MacKillop's known also as Mary of the Cross as Australian first Saint in a Canonisation ceremony in St. Peter's square on next Sunday.

German film director Wim Wenders speaks during a interview with AFP at the EU headquarters in Brussels on October 26, 2010. German director Wim Wenders is considering turning the Roman Catholic church's child sex abuse scandal into film, so shocked is he by a cover-up he says starts with the pope.

Japanese sculptor of the Sagrada Familia church Etsuro Sotoo poses next to a poster announcing the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Barcelona's famous temple on November 4, 2010. Pope Benedict XVI said on November 3, 2010 he was delighted to be consecrating Antoni Gaudi's architectural masterpiece during his upcoming visit to Spain, in the pilgrimage site of Santiago de Compostela in northeast Spain on November 6 and then Barcelona on November 7. The famously unfinished building will receive the official status of basilica following the consecration and masses that will be celebrated there. Currently only the building's crypt has been consecrated by the church. Poster reads in Catalan 'With the Pope at the Sagrada Familia.'

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, SPAIN - NOVEMBER 06: Prince Felipe of Spain and Princess Letizia of Spain receive Pope Benedict XVI at the Lavacolla airport on November 6, 2010 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The Pope is on a two-day visit to Spain which includes an open-air Mass and a visit to Barcelona tomorrow.

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, SPAIN - NOVEMBER 06: Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives at the Lavacolla airport on November 6, 2010 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The Pope is on a two-day visit to Spain which includes an open-air Mass and a visit to Barcelona tomorrow.