(Reuters) - Pope Benedict XVI waves to faithful during a mass in Plebiscito square in Naples October 21, 2007. REUTERS/Tony Gentile
(Reuters) - Pope Benedict XVI greets the crowd during his weekly general audience at the Vatican May 14, 2008. Pope Benedict, speaking a day after a California court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage, firmly restated on Friday the Roman Catholic Church's position that only unions between a man and a woman are moral. (Chris Helgren/Reuters)
(Reuters) - Father Emmanuel Carreira operates the telescope at the Vatican Observatory in Castelgandolfo, south of Rome, in this June 23, 2005 file photo. Reverend Jose Gabriel Funes, a 45-year-old Jesuit priest who is head of the Vatican Observatory and a scientific adviser to Pope Benedict, says there is no conflict between believing in God and in the possibility of "extraterrestrial brothers" perhaps more evolved than humans. REUTERS/Tony Gentile/Files (ITALY)
(Reuters) - Nuns wave to Pope Benedict XVI as he arrives for his weekly general audience at the Vatican May 14, 2008. Pope Benedict, speaking after a recent thaw in Vatican relations with China, on Wednesday prayed for the victims of the Sichuan quake. REUTERS/Chris Helgren (VATICAN)
(Reuters) - Pope Benedict XVI greets the crowd during his weekly general audience at the Vatican May 14, 2008. Pope Benedict, speaking after a recent thaw in Vatican relations with China, on Wednesday prayed for the victims of the Sichuan quake. REUTERS/Chris Helgren (VATICAN)
(Reuters) - Pope Benedict XVI greets the crowd during his weekly general audience at the Vatican May 14, 2008. Pope Benedict, speaking after a recent thaw in Vatican relations with China, on Wednesday prayed for the victims of the Sichuan quake. REUTERS/Chris Helgren (VATICAN)
