(AP) - In this picture made available by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI, visits the Madonna dei Bisognosi sanctuary in Rocca di Botte village, near L'Aquila, Italy, Friday Aug. 6, 2010. Normally there's lots of fanfare when the pope travels, but Benedict XVI slipped away Friday for the day without notice for lunch and prayer in the mountains of central Italy. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, HO)

(AP) - FILE- Cardinal Bernard Law during a memorial Mass at St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Monday, March 29, 2010. Groups representing victims of clergy sex abuse in the United States are urging Pope Benedict XVI to remove Cardinal Bernard Law as head of a Rome basilica, issuing their appeal Wednesday Aug. 4, 2010, shortly before the former Boston archbishop leads an annual high-profile ceremony in the church. Law resigned in 2002 as Boston archbishop to quell an outcry over the handling of sex abuse cases in his diocese. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

(AP) - Pope Benedict XVI addresses faithful during the Angelus prayer at Castel Gandolfo, in the outskirts of Rome, Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

(Reuters) - Faithful from Spain reacts to wave their national flags as Pope Benedict XVI leads his Angelus prayer at his summer residence in Castelgandolfo, south of Rome July 18, 2010. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi (VATICAN - Tags: RELIGION IMAGES OF THE DAY)

(Reuters) - Pope Benedict XVI is sheltered from the sun as he walks during an unveiling ceremony for a new fountain dedicated to him in the Vatican Gardens at the Vatican July 5, 2010. REUTERS/Max Rossi (VATICAN - Tags: RELIGION)

(AP) - FILE- In this Monday, Mar. 2, 2009 file photo, Walter Mixa, Catholic Bishop of Augsburg, at the beginning of the Spring Assembly of the German Bishop's Conference in Hamburg, northern Germany. The pope on Thursday, July 1, 2010, told a German bishop who resigned amid accusations of physical abuse, sexual harassment and alcoholism that he must take time for silent prayer, treatment and reconciliation if he wants to return to pastoral work. Pope Benedict XVI laid out the terms for Bishop Walter Mixa's rehabilitation during a private audience with the 69-year-old prelate, during which Mixa again apologized for his mistakes, the Vatican said. (AP Photo/Focke Strangmann, File)

(Reuters) - Pope Benedict XVI waves as he leads the Angelus prayer from the window of his private apartment in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican June 27, 2010. REUTERS/Max Rossi

(Reuters) - Bishops place their hands on the heads of new priests as Pope Benedict XVI celebrates an ordination mass in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican June 20, 2010. REUTERS/Tony Gentile (VATICAN - Tags: RELIGION)

(Reuters) - Catholic Archbishop of Hanoi Peter Nguyen Van Nhon (L) and Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City Cardinal Jean-Baptiste Pham Minh Man march while attending the consecration ceremony for Hung Hoa diocese's Auxiliary Bishop John Mary Vu Tat in Son Tay town, 60 km (37 miles) west of Hanoi June 15, 2010. Father Tat became a Catholic priest in a secret ceremony in Bac Ninh province without permission from government authorities on April 1, 1987. He disguised himself as a vegetable seller and cycled nearly 100 km (62 miles) from his home in Thach That district, west of Hanoi to the site of the ceremony where he was consecrated as a priest by Bac Ninh's Bishop Paul Joseph Pham Dinh Tung. Tat was later appointed by Pope Benedict XVI on March 27, 2010 as Auxiliary Bishop of Hung Hoa diocese, which is located in 10 provinces of northwest Vietnam. REUTERS/Kham (VIETNAM - Tags: RELIGION)

(Reuters) - Pope Benedict XVI sits with Orthodox Archbishop Chrysostomos II during their meeting at the Greek Orthodox Archbishopric in Nicosia June 5, 2010. REUTERS/Pier Paolo Cito/Pool (CYPRUS - Tags: RELIGION)

(Reuters) - The Italian Air Force aerobatic team "Frecce Tricolori" performs during Pope Benedict XVI's weekly Wednesday general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 2, 2010. REUTERS/Tony Gentile (VATICAN - Tags: RELIGION)

(Reuters) - Pope Benedict XVI speaks with Renata Polverini, the president of the Lazio region, during a private meeting at the Vatican May 28, 2010. REUTERS/Osservatore Romano (VATICAN - Tags: RELIGION)

(Reuters) - Bishops listen to Pope Benedict XVI as he addresses his speech to the members of CEI (Conference of Italian Bishops) during a meeting in the synod hall at the Vatican May 27, 2010. REUTERS/Max Rossi (VATICAN - Tags: RELIGION)

(Reuters) - Pope Benedict XVI looks at a painting presented by Moldova's interim President Mihai Ghimpu (L) during a private visit at the Vatican May 24, 2010. REUTERS/Gregorio Borgia/Pool (VATICAN - Tags: RELIGION POLITICS)

(Reuters) - Pope Benedict XVI greets Ainise (R) wife of Feleti Sevele (L), Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Tonga, during a private audience in the pontiff's studio at the Vatican May 20, 2010. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi (VATICAN - Tags: RELIGION POLITICS)