In this file photo, A printer uses a magnifier to check the quality of the first
official Pope Benedict XVI portrait of the Cologne archbishopric in a Cologne printing house April 21, 2005. Germany's
largest archbishopric on Thursday printed some 2,000 official portraits for its 750 parishes of newly elected conservative
German prelate Joseph Ratzinger, 78, the 265th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church and successor of the late Pope
John Paul II. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
Images of the newly elected Pope Benedict XVI, which have
been printed onto special foil, are fixed to candles at a candle factory in Munich April 21, 2005. The candles
which are all handmade, are sold and distributed by the family-run factory to souvenir shops and to churches. REUTERS/Tobias
Schwarz
Candles decorated with images of the newly elected Pope Benedict XVI, are
prepared for packaging at a candle factory in Munich April 21, 2005. The candles which are all handmade are sold
and distributed by the family-run factory to souvenir shops and to churches. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz
A woman lights a candle next to a candle with a picture of the new Pope Benedict
XVI, in a church in Marktl, southern Bavaria, Germany, on Thursday, April 21, 2005, the birth place of the new
Pope. (AP Photo/Rudi Blaha)
Jars of honey named after Pope Benedict XVI are displayed April 21, 2005
in the butcher shop of the small Bavarian village of Marktl, the birth place of newly elected Pope. REUTERS/Vincent
Kessler
Rosary boxes with picture showing Pope Benedict XVI are displayed in a souvenir
shop close to the Vatican in Rome. World leaders will return to Rome to witness the inauguration mass of Pope Benedict
XVI.(AFP/Mario Laporta)
Boxes of rosaries with the portrait of the newly elected Pope Benedict XVI are seen in a shop near the Vatican,
April 21, 2005. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
A baker presents 'Pope Benedict XVI' pastries given away free in Marktl
Am Inn, the pope's home town. The Vatican has begun to adjust to its new era under Pope Benedict XVI as the wider
world took a first measure of the man who has emerged from the shadow of his charismatic predecessor.(AFP/DDP/Joerg
Koch)
Workers set up chairs in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Thursday,
April 21, 2005, in preparation for Sunday's open-air inauguration ceremony for the pontificate of Pope Benedict
XVI. Former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, who chose the name of Benedict XVI, was elected the new head
of the Roman Catholic Church on April 19. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher)
A general view of the rows of chairs installed in St Peter's
Square at the Vatican a day before Pope Benedict XVI's inaugruation mass.(AFP/Thomas Coex)
Pope Benedict XVI waves during an audience with the international press at the Vatican. The meeting with hundreds
of journalists is the new pope's first audience with people outside the Vatican.(AFP/Vincenzo Pinto)
Pope Benedict XVI holds up his hands during his audience with international journalists in the Paul VI Hall in
the Vatican April 23, 2005. REUTERS/Alessia Pierdomenico
Pope Benedict XVI reads to an audience of international journalists in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican, April
23, 2005. The pope reminded journalists in four languages of their responsibility to seek the truth and defend
human dignity and pledged to have a papacy as open to the media as his predecessor. Photo by Pool/Reuters
Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz serves a celebratory Mass ahead
of Sunday's installation of Pope Benedict XVI, seen in photo left, at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conseption
in Moscow, Saturday, April 23, 2005. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
A group of nuns walk along Saint Peter's Colonade at the Vatican, April
23, 2005. About half million pilgrims are expected to take part to the first mass of Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday.
REUTERS/Max Rossi
Catholic Priest Georg Ratzinger, the 81-year-old brother of newly elected
German Pope Benedict XVI, arrives at Munich's airport April 23, 2005, to depart for Rome to visit his brother.
REUTERS/Michaela Rehle
Catholic Priest Georg Ratzinger (R), the 81-year-old brother of newly elected
German Pope Benedict XVI, waits at Munich airport, with the Vicar of Regenburg Wilhelm Gegenfurtner, for his flight
to Rome to visit his brother April 23, 2005. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle
Georg Ratzinger, who wrongly believed his brother Joseph was too old and too German to become pope, will attend
the inauguration ceremony for the pontiff on Sunday, he told Catholic agency KNA.(AFP/Osservatore Romano/Arturo
Mari)
" I will go to inauguration, but I still think he's too old: pope's brother ." - AFP - Thu Apr 21,11:00
AM ET
BERLIN (AFP) - Georg Ratzinger, who wrongly believed
his brother Joseph was too old and too German to become pope, will attend the inauguration ceremony for Pope Benedict
XVI on Sunday, he told Catholic agency KNA.
Georg, who at 81 is three years older than his brother, also reiterated his fear that the demands of the job would
take a toll on his health.
"Health-wise, he is not very robust," Georg told KNA. "His heart is not very good."
Georg, himself a prelate, said he hoped to have a direct telephone line to the new pope.
He revealed that the new pope had tried to call his brother at home in southern Germany on Tuesday, shortly after
his election, but that Georg had taken the phone off the hook to avoid calls from journalists.
However the brothers were able to have a short telephone conversation on Wednesday.
Germany's Bild newspaper reported that it was Georg's housekeeper, 79-year-old Agnes Heindl, who originally took
the call on Georg's mobile phone.
"The Holy Father said 'Good morning'," Heindl told the paper. "I didn't know how I should address
him. I mean, I know him so well.
"I stuttered: 'So what should I say now?' He laughed out loud."
Georg had said earlier this month that he did not believe his brother had a chance of becoming pope because of
his age, adding that he could not imagine a German would be chosen.
The brother of Pope Benedict XVI, Georg Ratzinger, is welcomed
by the Pope's assistant, Ingrid Stampa, as he arrives at his brother's residence near the Vatican in Rome.(AFP/Marco
Longari)
Ingrid Stampa welcomes Georg Ratzinger to the residence of his brother, Pope benedict XVI. Stampa is a 55-year-old
professor of the viola da gamba, an ancient musical instrument similar to the modern cello, and has been the pope's
housekeeper for the past 14 years(AFP/Marco Longari)
Georg Ratzinger, center, brother of Pope Benedict XVI, leaves his residence
in Rome to visit his brother at the Vatican, Saturday, April 23, 2005. The brother of the newly nominated pontiff
is in Rome to attend the installation ceremony of Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher)
Georg Ratzinger brother of Pope Benedict XVI leaves his residence in Rome
to visit his brother in the Vatican, Saturday, April 23, 2005. Pope Benedict XVI is expected to take over his new
residence in the Papal apartments at the Vatican following his installation ceremony on Sunday. (AP Photo/Diether
Endlicher)
A group of Slovenian tourists are photographed in front of the house where newly elected Pope Benedict XVI was
born, in the Bavarian village of Marktl, April 23, 2005. REUTERS/Alexandra Winkler
A young girl sits outside the entrance to the house where newly elected Pope Benedict XVI was born in 1927, in
the Bavarian village of Marktl, April 23, 2005. REUTERS/Alexandra Winkler
German pilgrims wave German and
Bavarian flags in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday, April 23, 2005. Hundreds
of thousands of pilgrims, many from the pontiff's native Germany, are expected in Rome to attend Pope Benedict
XVI installation ceremony on Sunday. (AP Photo/Jasper Juinen)
A man holds a German flag is St Peter's Square at the Vatican. Thousands of Germans are set to converge on the
Vatican for the inauguration of Pope Benedict XVI.(AFP/Andreas Solaro)
German pilgrims wave a German flag in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican,
Saturday, April 23, 2005. Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims, many from the pontiff's native Germany, are expected
in Rome to attend Pope Benedict XVI installation ceremony on Sunday. (AP Photo/Jasper Juinen)
Pope Benedict XVI speaks during an audience with the international press at the Vatican. The pope launched a
media charm offensive a day ahead of his solemn inauguration, telling journalists in four languages that thanks
to them the 'entire world' had been focused on the Roman Catholic Church.(AFP/Vincenzo Pinto)
Pope Benedict XVI enters the vast Vatican hall, used for weekly general audiences, for a meeting with journalists,
Saturday, April 23, 2005. The Pontiff said Saturday he hopes to continue the openness with the media fostered by
his predecessor and thanked journalists for their coverage during the 'historically important' events during the
papal transition. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Pope Benedict XVI waves as he enters the vast Vatican hall used for weekly general audiences for a meeting with
journalists, Saturday, April 23, 2005. The Pontiff said Saturday he hopes to continue the openness with the media
fostered by his predecessor and thanked journalists for their coverage during the 'historically important' events
during the papal transition. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Pope Benedict XVI stands in the Paul VI Hall during his audience with international journalists in the Vatican
April 23, 2005. REUTERS/Alessia Pierdomenico
Pope Benedict XVI speaks in the vast Vatican hall used for weekly general audiences for a meeting with journalists,
Saturday, April 23, 2005. The Pontiff said Saturday he hopes to continue the openness with the media fostered by
his predecessor and thanked journalists for their coverage during the 'historically important' events during the
papal transition. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
VATICAN CITY - Security forces went on alert around
the Vatican on Saturday and cleared streets for an expected 500,000 pilgrims arriving for the ceremony to formally
install Pope Benedict XVI and offer the pontiff a major chance to set the tone for his papacy.
Police officers stand in front of St. Pieters Square near the
Vatican in Rome, Saturday, April 23, 2005.Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims, many from the pontiff's native Germany,
are expected in Rome to attend Pope Benedict XVI's installation ceremony on Sunday. (AP Photo/Jasper Juinen)
Workers secured on ropes inspect the cupola of St. Peter's Basilica
at the Vatican, Friday, April 22, 2005. Pope Benedict XVI will celebrate an outdoor Mass to formally take the papal
throne on Sunday, April 24. Tight security has been set up around the Vatican ahead of Sunday's ceremony which
is expected to draw hundreds of dignitaries and half a million faithful. (AP Photo/Jasper Juinen)
Pope Benedict XVI blesses international journalists during his audience with them in the Paul VI Hall in the
Vatican April 23, 2005. REUTERS/Alessia Pierdomenico
Pope Benedict XVI is flanked by two bishops, left, and Italian Cardinal Ersilio Tonini in the Vatican hall used
for weekly general audiences for a meeting with the media, Saturday, April 23, 2005. The Pontiff said Saturday
he hopes to continue the openness with the media fostered by his predecessor and thanked journalists for their
coverage during the 'historically important' events during the papal transition. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Pope Benedict XVI reads to an audience of international journalists in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican April
23, 2005. REUTERS/Alessia Pierdomenico
German pilgrims visit the Vatican ahead of the inauguration
of their fellow countryman, Pope Benedict XVI, on Sunday. City authorities say there could be up to half a million
people as well as a sizeable contingent of world leaders for the event(AFP/Andreas Solaro)
Pope Benedict XVI speaks during the Pope's audience with cardinals
in the Clementine Hall in the Vatican, April 22, 2005. Pope Benedict wants to serve rather than be honored during
his papacy, he said on Friday, asking cardinals to help him overcome his weaknesses as he leads the Catholic Church.
(Osservatore Romano/Reuters)
Cardinals applaud Pope Benedict XVI during a meeting in the Clementine
Hall in Vatican City. The Pope warmly thanked the cardinals telling them he needed their advice and support to
complete his mission.(AFP/POOL/Arturo Mari)
Pope Benedict XVI (R) hugs Cardinal Eduardo Martinez Somalo
of Spain during a meeting with the cardinals in the Vatican City. The Pope warmly thanked the cardinals telling
them he needed their advice and support to complete his mission.(AFP/POOL/Arturo Mari)
Pope Benedict XVI (R) speaks with Cardinal Joachim Meisner of
Germany during a meeting with the cardinals in the Vatican City. The Pope warmly thanked the cardinals telling
them he needed their advice and support to complete his mission.(AFP/POOL/Arturo Mari)
In this picture made available by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore
Romano, Pope Benedict XVI greets Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano of Italy during a meeting with
the College of Cardinals, at the Vatican, Friday, April 22, 2005. Pope Benedict XVI held his first working meeting
with the College of Cardinals on Friday as Vatican and Rome authorities began gearing up for another influx of
dignitaries and the faithful for an inauguration on Sunday expected to draw half a million people. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore
Romano)
ATTENTION EDITORS - REPEATING WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION A
video grab shows the Pope Benedict XVI (2nd R) meeting Cardinal Bernard Law of the U.S., at the Vatican April 22,
2005. The inaugural Mass of the Pope will be held on Sunday and is expected to draw a number of heads of state
of government, ministers and religious leaders. REUTERS/Vatican TV
Pope Benedict XVI greets the crowd outside his residence in the Vatican,
April 20, 2005. The pope moved swiftly on the first day of his reign on Wednesday to allay fears of a rigid, authoritarian
papacy, saying he would work for dialogue both within the Church and with other faiths. REUTERS/Osservatore Romano
In this photo made available by the Vatican paper Osservatore Romano, Pope
Benedict XVI greets children and the crowd gathered in front of his former private home in Rome, Wednesday, April
20, 2005. The Pontiff, former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, exited the Vatican City Wednesday for a quick
visit to his former home in Rome. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano, ho)
Pope Benedict XVI greets the crowd gathered in front of his former private home in Rome, Thursday, April 21,
2005. The Pontiff, former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, exited the Vatican City Thursday for a quick visit
to his former home. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
Pope Benedict XVI waves to the crowd after leaving his residence in the Vatican, April 21, 2005. Pope Benedict
signaled his papacy would bring no swift change in the Catholic Church on Thursday as details emerged of how he
swept to an overwhelming victory in a secret conclave. (Osservatore Romano-Arturo Mari/Pool via Reuters)
Pope Benedict XVI greets the crowd outside his residence in the Vatican April 21, 2005. Pope Benedict
XVI signalled his papacy would bring no swift change in the Catholic Church on Thursday as details emerged of how
he swept to an overwhelming victory in a secret conclave. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
Pope Benedict XVI greets the crowd gathered in front of his former private
home in Rome, Wednesday, April 20, 2005. The Pontiff, former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, exited the Vatican
City Wednesday for a quick visit to his former home in Rome. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Pope Benedict XVI waves to the crowd after leaving his residence
at the Vatican, April 21, 2005. Pope Benedict signalled his papacy would bring no swift change in the Catholic
Church on Thursday, as details emerged of how he swept to an overwhelming victory in a secret conclave. REUTERS/Giuliano
Benvegnu
Pope Benedict XVI enters an armored limousine after leaving his
residence in the Vatican, April 21, 2005. Pope Benedict XVI signalled his papacy would bring no swift change in
the Catholic Church on Thursday as details emerged of how he swept to an overwhelming victory in a secret conclave.
REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi
Pope Benedict XVI greets the crowd gathered in front of his former private
home in Rome, Thursday, April 21, 2005. The Pontiff, former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, exited the Vatican
City Thursday for a quick visit to his former home. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
Pope Benedict XVI greets the crowd outside his residence in the Vatican
April 21, 2005. Pope Benedict XVI signaled his papacy would bring no swift change in the Catholic Church on Thursday
as details emerged of how he swept to an overwhelming victory in a secret conclave. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)
Pope Benedict XVI greets the crowd outside his residence in the Vatican,
April 21, 2005. Pope Benedict XVI signalled his papacy would bring no swift change in the Catholic Church on Thursday
as details emerged of how he swept to an overwhelming victory in a secret conclave. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
Pope Benedict XVI enters an armored limousine after leaving his
residence in the Vatican, April 21, 2005. Pope Benedict XVI signalled his papacy would bring no swift change in
the Catholic Church on Thursday as details emerged of how he swept to an overwhelming victory in a secret conclave.
REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi
A woman holds a paper reading 'I love You' as Pope Benedict XVI left his
residence in Rome, near the Vatican.(AFP/Thomas Coex)
A girl holds up a paper reading 'Wir Lieben Dich' (We love you) as she waits
to see Pope Benedict XVI, in Rome, Thursday, April 21, 2005. The Pontiff, former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany,
exited the Vatican City Thursday for a quick visit to his former home and a crowd gathered outside to see him.
(AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
People cheer as Pope Benedict XVI leaves his former home on a car in Rome,
Thursday, April 21, 2005. The Pontiff, former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, exited the Vatican City Thursday
for a quick visit to his former home. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
Pope Benedict XVI gestures after leaving his residence in the Vatican April
21, 2005. Pope Benedict signalled his papacy would bring no swift change in the Catholic Church on Thursday as
details emerged of how he swept to an overwhelming victory in a secret conclave. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi
People reach out to get a better view of Pope Benedict XVI outside
his former home in Rome, Thursday, April 21, 2005. The Pontiff, former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, exited
the Vatican City Thursday for a quick visit to his former home. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
Pope Benedict XVI waves upon leaving his residence in the Vatican, April
21, 2005. The Pope signalled his papacy would bring no swift change in the Catholic Church on Thursday as details
emerged of how he swept to an overwhelming victory in a secret conclave. REUTERS/Jerry Lampen
The archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams (R) alongside Archbishop
of Uppsala Dr. K. G. Hammar (L) as they enter a Service of Thanksgiving at The Swedish
Church in London, April 28, 2004. Williams, spiritual leader of the Anglican church,
plans to attend Sunday's inauguration of Pope Benedict XVI.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)
LONDON (AFP) - The archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams,
spiritual leader of the Anglican church, plans to attend Sunday's inauguration of Pope Benedict XVI, a church spokesman
in London said.
Williams -- the first serving archbishop of Canterbury to attend a papal inauguration since the Reformation in
the 16th century -- will travel to Rome on Saturday, returning on Monday.
He intends to wear both a ring presented to one of his predecessors, Archbishop Michael Ramsey, by Pope Paul VI
and a pectoral cross presented to him by Pope John Paul II, the church spokesman said Friday.
Williams' attendance is seen a step forward for ecumenical relations between Anglicanism and Catholicism, after
strains over the ordination of women priests in the Church of England and gay marriages and clergy in North America.
Pope Benedict XVI waves to the crowd as he leaves his residence
in Rome, near the Vatican. The Pope was expected to continue settling into his role as the new leader of some 1.1
billion Roman Catholics after vowing to promote dialogue with Jews(AFP/Pool)
Pope Benedict XVI waves to the crowd as he leaves his residence
in Rome, near the Vatican.(AFP/Filippo Monteforte)
Anna Mayer, former neighbour of new Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger, shows a letter written by Ratzinger
in Hufschlag near Traunstein, Germany Wednesday April 20, 2005. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)
Outside view of the house in Traunstein. Germany, where German Cardinal Joeseph Ratzinger, grew up pictured April
14, 2005. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson/File)
