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DEUTSCHLAND JOSEPH RATZINGER ZUM ERZBISCHOF GEWEIHT

ARCHIV - 28.05.1977, Bayern, München: Joseph Ratzinger bei seiner ersten Predigt nach der feierlichen Weihe zum Erzbischof der Erzdiözese München und Freising im Münchner Liebfrauendom. (zu "Gutachten über Missbrauch im Münchner Erzbistum wird vorgestellt") Foto: Hartmut Reeh/dpa +++ dpa-Bildfunk +++ (KEYSTONE/DPA/Hartmut Reeh)

DEUTSCHLAND KARDINAL RATZINGER 1982

With the cuppolas of Munich's cathedral in rear, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger says farewell to the Bavarian believers in the Munich downtown in this Feb. 28, 1982 photo. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, a longtime guardian of doctrinal orthodoxy, was elected the new pope Tuesday, April 19, 2005 in the first conclave of the new millennium. He chose the name Pope Benedict XVI. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Diether Endlicher)

GERMANY CHURCH ABUSE

FILE---Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI arrives for his departure at Munich Airport in Freising, Germany, June 22, 2020. A long-awaited report on sexual abuse in GermanyâÄ™s Munich diocese on Thursday faulted retired Pope Benedict XVIâÄ™s handling of four cases when he was archbishop in the 1970s and 1980s. (Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP, file)

CEREMONY FOR THE CONFERMENT OF THE DEGREES HONORIS CAUSA TO POPE EMERITUS BENEDICT XVI

Ceremony for the conferment of the Degrees Honoris Causa to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger) from the Pontifical University of St. John Paul II and its Music Academy in Krakow. Foreground of the Pope Emeritus seated. Castel Gandolfo, Italy. 4th July 2015 (KEYSTONE/Mondadori Portfolio/Grzegorz Galazka)

GERMANY CHURCH ABUSE

FILE - Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI sits in St. Peter's Basilica as he attends the ceremony marking the start of the Holy Year, at the Vatican, Dec. 8, 2015. A long-awaited report on the church's handling of cases of sexual abuse by clergy and others in Germany's Munich archdiocese and which was once led by retired Pope Benedict XVI from 1977 until 1982, is being released on Thursday Jan. 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

POPE BENEDICT XVI

The pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger) chairing First Vespers of the First Sunday of Advent at Saint Peter's Basilica. Vatican City, 2nd December 2006 (KEYSTONE/Mondadori Portfolio/Grzegorz Galazka)

MUNICH ABUSE REPORT IS PRESENTED

13 January 2022, Bavaria, Altötting: A figure of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI hangs on a facade on Kapellenplatz in the center of the village. A law firm commissioned by the diocese of Munich wants to present an expert opinion on abuse cases there on Jan. 20, 2022. This will also deal with the case of a priest who was appointed in the parish of Garching an der Alz, although he had previously been convicted of child abuse. According to the diocese, there are indications that he also relapsed in Garching. Photo: Peter Kneffel/dpa (KEYSTONE/DPA/Peter Kneffel)

PHOTO SET COLOR RED

epa08406849 A cardinal's cape is blown up by the wind as he assists Pope Benedict XVI during the weekly WEdnesday General Audience, in St Peter Square, in Vatican City, 26 September 2012. (re-issued 07 May 2020)....The color red is a warm and positive color associated with our most physical needs and our will to survive. Red is energizing, It excites the emotions and motivates us to take action. Being the color of physical movement, the color red awakens our physical life force. It is the color of sexuality and can stimulate deeper and more intimate passions in us, such as love and sex on the positive side or revenge and anger on the negative. EPA/CLAUDIO PERI ATTENTION: This Image is part of a PHOTO SET *** Local Caption *** 50535158

VATICAN POPE HOLY YEAR

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, right, hugs Pope Francis in St. Peter's Basilica during the ceremony marking the start of the Holy Year, at the Vatican, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015. Pope Francis pushed open the great bronze doors of St. Peter's Basilica on Tuesday to launch his Holy Year of Mercy, declaring that mercy trumps moralizing in his Catholic Church. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

POPE BENEDICT XVI

The pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger) taking part in the wednesday general audience on Saint Peter's Square. Vatican City, 2005 (KEYSTONE/Mondadori Portfolio/Grzegorz Galazka)

ITALIEN PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

Pope Benedict XVI waves from his popemobile as it rains, after the traditional prayer to celebrate the Immaculate Conception, in Rome, Tuesday Dec. 8, 2009. On Dec. 8, the Catholic Church celebrates the Immaculate Conception of Mary, and it is a national holiday in predominantly Roman Catholic Italy. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

GROSSBRITANNIEN BESUCH PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

Pope Benedict XVI waves from a window of the Vatican's Apostolic Nunciature in London where he is staying during his visit to Britain, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010. Pope Benedict XVI is on a four-day visit, the first-ever state visit by a Pope to Britain. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

KAMERUN BESUCH PAPST

Pope Benedict XVI leaves on his popemobile after he celebrated a Vesper ceremony in the "Marie Reigne des Apotres", basilica, in Yaounde , Cameroon, Wednesday, March 18, 2009. The pontiff is in Africa for a seven-day trip that will take him to Cameroon and Angola. (AP Photo / Andrew Medichini)

DEUTSCHLAND BESUCH PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

Pope Benedict XVI leaves the parliament hall after his speech at the German parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011. Pope Benedict XVI is on a four-day official visit to his homeland Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

USA BESUCH PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

A picture made available on 16 April 2008 of Pope Benedict XVI as he waves from a plane upon his arrival to Washington DC., USA, 15 April 2008, for his pastoral visit to United States. (KEYSTONE/EPA/POOL EPA/POOL)

BRASILIEN BESUCH PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

JAHRESRUECKBLICK 2007 - AUSLAND - BRASILIEN BESUCH PAPST BENEDIKT XVI: Pope Benedict XVI looks at fireworks during an event at the Pacaembu soccer stadium in Sao Paulo, Thursday, May 10, 2007. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

VATIKAN PAPST BENEDIKT

Pope Benedict XVI holds up the ostensory during a vespers ceremony on the occasion of the feast of the presentation of the Lord, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

DEUTSCHLAND WELTJUGENDTAG BESUCH PAPST

JAHRESRUECKBLICK 2005 - AUSLAND - DEUTSCHLAND WELTJUGENDTAG BESUCH PAPST: Pope Benedict XVI watches a dancing girl at Marienfeld, a former coal mine, in Kerpen, near Cologne, Saturday, August 20, 2005. Hundreds of thousands of high-spirited pilgrims gathered Saturday on the storm-soaked grass of the Marienfeld outside Cologne to hear Pope Benedict XVI's homily at a vigil, gazing upward at the cloud-shaped altar. (KEYSTONE/AP PHOTO/Michael Probst)

VATIKAN PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

Pope Benedict XVI arrives for a general audience he held in St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 21, 2010. Pope Benedict XVI promised Wednesday that the Catholic Church would take action to confront the clerical sex abuse scandal, making his first public comments on the crisis days after meeting with victims. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

VATIKAN PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

Pope Benedict XVI leaves St. Paul's Outside the Walls Basilica at the end of a Vespers Mass, in Rome, Monday, June 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

VATIKAN WEIHNACHTEN PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

Pope Benedict XVI overlooks the balcony of his office after the lighting of a lamp which symbolizes 'the desire for peace in the world', Sunday 24 December 2006, in Vatican City. EPA/CLAUDIO ONORATI

SCHWEIZ BESUCH PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

JAHRESRUECKBLICK 2006 - AUSLAND - SCHWEIZ BESUCH PAPST BENEDIKT XVI: In this picture made available Wednesday, July 19, 2006, by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI flanked at right by his personal secretary Georg Gaenswein, caresses St. Bernard dogs in Martigny, Switzerland, Tuesday, July 18, 2006. Pope Benedict XVI made an unannounced visit to Switzerland, strolling across the Italian-Swiss border to visit a monastery and a kennel of St. Bernard dogs. Benedict arrived in the mountains a week earlier and his holiday ends July 28. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, Arturo Mari)

VATIKAN BESUCH SCHWEIZ

Bundesspraesidentin Doris Leuthard bei einer Audienz mit Papst Benedikt dem XVI., am Donnerstag, 6. Mai 2010 im Vatikan in Rom. (KEYSTONE/Karl Mathis)

VATIKAN PAPST BENEDIKT XVI INAUGURATION

This April 24, 2005 photo shows Vatican master of Ceremonies Archbishop Piero Marini, not pictured, adjusting the skullcap of Pope Benedict XVI during his installment Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI said Monday, Feb. 11, 2013 he lacks the strength to fulfill his duties and on Feb. 28 will become the first pontiff in 600 years to resign. The announcement sets the stage for a conclave in March to elect a new leader for world's 1 billion Catholics. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

VATIKAN PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

Pope Benedict XVI during his weekly general audience in St. Peter square at the Vatican, Wednesday. 4 May, 2011 (KEYSTONE/PICTURE ALLIANCE/Stefano Spaziani)

VATIKAN PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

Pope Benedict XVI leads the beatification ceremony of Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's square in the Vatican.May 1, 2011, (KEYSTONE/PICTURE ALLIANCE/vatican pool)

VATIKAN PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

Pope Benedict XVI during his weekly general audience in St. Peter square at the Vatican, Wednesday. 4 May, 2011 (KEYSTONE/PICTURE ALLIANCE/Stefano Spaziani)

ITALIEN PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

Private walk of Pope Benedict XVI during his summer vacation,. looks at the 'Centro Cadore' lake in Domegge, Lorenzago di Cadore, in Italy's Dolomite mountains...July 23, 2007. (KEYSTONE/PICTURE ALLIANCE/Stefano Spaziani)

ITALIEN PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

Private walk of Pope Benedict XVI during his summer vacation,. looks at the 'Centro Cadore' lake in Domegge, Lorenzago di Cadore, in Italy's Dolomite mountains...July 23, 2007. (KEYSTONE/PICTURE ALLIANCE/Stefano Spaziani)

VATIKAN PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

Pope Benedict XVI holds the wooden cross during the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) torchlight procession on Good Friday in front of the Colosseum in Rome, Friday, April 22, 2011.The evening Via Crucis procession at the ancient Colosseum amphitheater is a Rome tradition that draws a large crowd of faithful, including many of the pilgrims who flock to the Italian capital for Holy Week ceremonies before Easter SundayVia Crucis; (KEYSTONE/PICTURE ALLIANCE/Stefano Spaziani)

VATIKAN ERNENNUNG KARDINAELE

epa02457227 Newly-elevated Swiss Cardinal Kurt Koch (3-R), is installed by Pope Benedict XVI (C) as one of the 24 new cardinals during the Consistory ceremony in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, 20 November 2010. Reports state that Pope Benedict XVI installed 24 new Roman Catholic cardinals from around the world on 20 November 2010 in his latest batch of appointments that could include his successor as leader of the 1.2 billion member church. EPA/GIUSEPPE GIGLIA

KUBA BESUCH PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

epa03160654 A handout picture by Cubadebate.com shows an aerial view of Antonio Maceo square during a mass offered by Pope Benedict XVI in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, 26 March 2012. EPA/Ismael Francisco EDITORIAL USE ONLY HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY

OESTERREICH BESUCH PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

A gust of wind blows the coat of Pope Benedict XVI over his head during an Angelus prayer outside St. Stephen's Cathedral in downtown Vienna, on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2007. The pontiff ends his three-day-visit to Austria on Sunday. (AP Photo/Robert Jaeger, Pool)

MEXIKO BESUCH PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, left, places a Mexican sombrero on the head of Pope Benedict XVI upon his arrival to give a Mass in Bicentennial Park near Silao, Mexico, Sunday, March 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano)

SPANIEN WELTJUGENDTAG 2011 BESUCH PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

epa02871476 A young man cheers the Pope Benedict XVI before chairing the a meeting with the participants of the 26th Catholic World Youth Day festival, in Madrid, Spain, 18 August 2011. Pontiff arrived today to Madrid to take part in the Catholic World Youth Day festival, which is expected to gather more of one million pilgrims from across the world from 16 to 21 August 2011. EPA/JUAN CARLOS HIDALGO

ITALIEN PAPST BENEDIKT XVI UNFALL

Pope Benedict XVI delivers his Angelus prayer in Romano Canavese, northern Italy, Sunday, July 19, 2009. The pope blessed a few hundred faithful Sunday with his right arm in a cast during his first public appearance since undergoing surgery to set a wrist he fractured in a fall. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

SPANIEN WELTJUGENDTAG 2011 BESUCH PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

Pope Benedict XVI listens during a religious ceremony at the Cuatro Vientos airbase outside Madrid, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2011. The Pope arrived in Madrid Thursday for a four-day visit to celebrate the church's World Youth Day. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

VATIKAN PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

Children dressed in traditional Bavarian costumes dance for Pope Benedict XVI on the occasion of the Pontiff's 85th birthday celebrations in the Clementine hall at the Vatican, Monday, April 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, Pool)

In this picture made available by the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI looks at a white dove that was freed at the end of the Angelus prayer in St. Peter's square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano, HO) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY **

VATIKAN PAPST BENEDIKT XVI INAUGURATION

Pope Benedict XVI is driven through the crowd of faithfuls and pilgrims gathered in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican 24 April 2005, at the end of his first public service. Addressing the world in his first official sermon, Pope Benedict XVI said today that his predecessor John Paul II had been awaited in heaven. Addressing a packed square during the inaugural mass of his pontificate, the German-born pontiff spoke immediately of his predecessor's legacy. EPA/CLAUDIO PERI

VATIKAN PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

JAHRESRUECKBLICK 2005 - AUSLAND - VATIKAN AUDIENZ PAPST BENEDIKT XVI: Pope Benedict XVI after the general audience on Wednesday, June 22, 2005, in St. Peter's square, Vatican City. (KEYSTONE/EPA/Maurizio Brambatti)

VATIKAN PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

JAHRESRUECKBLICK 2007 - AUSLAND - VATIKAN PAPST MANN UEBERSPRINGT ABSCHRANKUNG: A 27-year-old German man (R) leaps over a barricade and tries to jump on to Pope Benedict's open-topped jeep (L), hampered by Pope's bodyguards, in Sain Peter's Square on June 6, 2007. The man took the German Pope's bodyguards by surprise in St Peter's Square, coming within a metre of the pontiff in an episode that brought back memories of the assassination attempt against his predecessor Pope John Paul in 1981. The man, wearing a baseball cap, jumped out of the crowd and over a wooden barricade as the Pope passed by to start his weekly audience for some 40,000 people. The man was later described by the Vatican as 'clearly deranged'. (KEYSTONE/EPA/Romano Gambineri)

KUBA BESUCH PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

Cubans wave and cheer as Pope Benedict XVI, not seen, is being driven along the streets of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, Monday March 26, 2012.(AP Photo/Desmond Boylan,Pool)

DEUTSCHLAND BESUCH PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

Germany's tabloid Bild Zeitung has covered their publishers building with a giant reprint of their front page from April 20, 2005 when Pope Benedict XVI was elected and the headline 'We Are Pope' in Berlin, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. The 45 x 64 meters poster will welcome the pope to his Germany visit from Thursday Sept. 22 until Sunday 25, 2011. (Photo/Markus Schreiber)

DEUTSCHLAND BESUCH PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

German President Christian Wulff, right, welcomes Pope Benedict XVI, left, with military honors at the Bellevue Palace in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011. Pope Benedict XVI is on a four-day official visit to his homeland Germany. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

VATIKAN PAPST BENEDIKT

Pope Benedictus XVI in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday October 15, 2005 during celebrations of a youth festival. Some 150,000 people, most of them children, attended the first youth festival held at the Vatican since Pope Benedictus XVI's papacy began. (KEYSTONE/EPA/Ettore Ferrari)

DEUTSCHLAND WELTJUGENDTAG BESUCH PAPST

In this picture released by Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI waves to faithful as he arrives for the concluding Mass of the World Youth Day at the Marienfeld near Cologne, Germany, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2005. The Pontiff celebrated an open-air Mass before more than 1 million young people Sunday, calling on the pilgrims to make wise use of the freedom God has given them. (AP Photo/L' Osservatore Romano)

DEUTSCHLAND BESUCH PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

JAHRESRUECKBLICK 2006 - AUSLAND - DEUTSCHLAND BESUCH PAPST BENEDIKT XVI: Pope Benedict XVI waves to pilgrims as he arrives in the popemobile for a public mass on the fair ground in Munich on Sunday morning, September 10, 2006. German-born Pope Benedict XVI pays a six-day visit to his his Bavarian homeland from September 9 to September 14, 2006. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

ISRAEL POPE BENEDICT XVI

epa01730283 Pope Benedict XVI neels in the Grotto of Annunciation in the Galilee city of Nazareth in northern Israel, 14 May 2009. Pope Benedict XVI called on Christians and Muslims in Nazareth to live together peacefully, despite the tensions which in recent years have riven the two communities in the town of Jesus Christ's boyhood. Nazareth is Israels largest Arab town and the centre of the Galilee region, where the majority of the country's 150,000 Christians live. EPA/ETTORE FERRARI

VATIKAN PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

Pope Benedict XVI gestures from his popemobile as he leaves a youth gathering, in St. Peter's square, at the Vatican, Thursday, March 25, 2010. The Vatican on Thursday strongly defended its decision not to defrock an American priest accused of molesting some 200 deaf boys in Wisconsin and denounced what it called a campaign to smear Pope Benedict XVI and his aides. Church and Vatican documents showed that in the mid-1990s, two Wisconsin bishops urged the Vatican office led by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger now the pope, to let them hold a church trial against the Rev. Lawrence Murphy. The bishops admitted the trial was coming years after the alleged abuse, but argued that the deaf community in Milwaukee was demanding justice from the church. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

VATIKAN PAPST WAHL BENEDIKT XVI

Vatican Master of Ceremonies Archbishop Piero Marini, right, speaks to his aide Monsignor Franco Camaldo, left, as Joseph Ratzinger of Germany waves from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican to a cheering crowd gathered in St. Peter's Square soon after his election as Pope Benedict XVI, Tuesday, April 19, 2005. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

KUBA BESUCH PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

In this picture made available by the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano Pope Benedict XVI meets with Fidel Castro in Havana, Wednesday, March 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano)

ISRAEL BESUCH PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

Pope Benedict XVI (L) and Israeli President Shimon Peres, plant a tree in the garden of the Presidential Residence in Jerusalem, 11 May 2009. Pope Benedict XVI is on a week long tour in the Middle East that includes Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian territories. (KEYSTONE/AP/Oded Balilty)

FRANKREICH BESUCH PAPST

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, center, and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, left, talk to Pope Benedict XVI after they exchanged presents at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Friday, Sept. 12, 2008. Pope Benedict XVI has arrived in France for a four-day trip that will take him from the presidential Elysee Palace in Paris to the shrine in Lourdes. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Eric Feferberg, Pool)

PORTUGAL BESUCH PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

epa02156644 Pope Benedict XVI prepares to leave Sanctuary of Fatima to depart to Porto for the last day his visit to Portugal, Fatima, 14 May 2010. Pope Benedict XVI is on a four day official visit to Portugal to attend the annual celebrations of the Our Lady 13 May 1917 apparition to the three little shepherds and the 10th year of their beatification. EPA/PAULO NOVAIS

MEXIKO BESUCH PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

ALTERNATIVE CROP OF MXEV101 .- A woman holds up an image of Pope Benedict XVI as she stands near the Colegio Miraflores where the pope will reside during his stay in Leon, Mexico, Friday March 23, 2012. Benedict's weeklong trip to Mexico and Cuba is his first to both countries. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

VATIKAN RELIGION CHRISTENTUM

epa01592507 Pope Benedict XVI acknowledges the welcoming calls from priests in Nervi hall, during the general Weekly Wednesday audience on Wednesday 7 January 2009 in Vatican City. EPA/ DANILO SCHIAVELLA

ANGOLA BESUCH PAPST

An Angolan soldier provides security before the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI for a mass in the city of Luanda , Angola, Saturday, March 21, 2009. Pope Benedict XVI appealed to the Catholics of Angola on Saturday to reach out to and convert believers in witchcraft who feel threatened by "spirits" and "evil powers" of sorcery. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)

AUSTRALIEN WELTJUGENDTAG 2008

Pope Benedict XVI says a prayer during the first station of the cross, a re-enactment of the Last Super, at St Mary's Cathedral Crypt in Sydney on Friday, July 18, 2008. The Pontiff is currently in Australia for World Youth Day runs until July 20. (KEYSTONE/EPA/PAUL MILLER) AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT

VATIKAN PAPST BENEDIKT XVI OSTERN

Pope Benedict XVI, holding a tall, lit, white candle, enters a hushed and darkened St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican Saturday, April 7, 2012, to begin the Vatican's Easter vigil service. Except for the twinkle of camera flashes, the basilica was almost pitch-black as the thousands of faithful in pews awaited Benedict's arrival through the rear entrance Saturday night. Christians on Easter joyously mark their belief that Christ rose from the dead after his crucifixion. Praying at the start of the service, Benedict said Easter brings hope to the faithful. On Sunday morning, he will lead Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

VATIKAN NEUJAHR 2008 PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

In this picture made available by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI leaves St. Peter's square in his popemobile after visiting the nativity scene at the end of the Te Deum prayer in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Monday, Dec. 31, 2007. Pope Benedict XVI lamented Monday what he called the "trivialization'' of sexuality and the lack of faith among young people, saying in a New Year's Eve message that he wanted 2008 to bring hope to all. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, HO)**NO SALES, FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY**

VATIKAN NEUJAHR 2008 PAPST BENEDIKT XVI

Pope Benedict XVI leaves St. Peter's square after visiting the nativity scene at the end of the Te Deum prayer in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Monday, Dec. 31, 2007. Pope Benedict XVI lamented Monday what he called the "trivialization'' of sexuality and the lack of faith among young people, saying in a New Year's Eve message that he wanted 2008 to bring hope to all. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Benedict XVI waves for a sea of cameras as he arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2007. Benedict appealed to the international community Wednesday to help end the violence in Somalia and to continue with relief efforts despite the dangers. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Smiley N. Pool) ** MANDATORY CREDIT **

Pope Benedict XVI blesses the faithful as he leaves St. Peter's square at the Vatican at the end of his weekly general audience, Wednesday, June 30, 2010. The Vatican announced on Wednesday that Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet was named chief to its powerful Congregations for Bishops, which vets bishop appointments around the world, and that Italian Monsignor Rino Fisichella has been tapped to head a new Vatican office to fight secularization and re-evangelize the West. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)