Lisa Krantz Photography

Pope Benedict XVI

A nun makes her way through the late afternoon light falling on St. Peter's Square after a Novemdiales Mass, one of nine memorial masses for Pope John Paul II, in Vatican City, Rome.
  
Workers build a base for large video screens on the street leading to St. Peter's Square for Pope Benedict XVI's Inauguration Mass. An estimated half million people filled the streets surrounding the Vatican for the Mass.
  
Nuns leave a Novemdiales Mass, the eighth one during the nine day formal mourning period for Pope John Paul II at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, Italy.
     
  
Hours after Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was named Pope Benedict XVI, the celebration winds down in St. Peter's Square in Rome, Italy on Tuesday, April 19, 2005.
   
Cardinals participate in the Pro Eligendo Papa Mass at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City on Monday, April 18, 2005. The Mass was the last for the Cardinals before they entered the Conclave Monday afternoon.
  
"Es Blanco, Es Blanco," cries Nena Moreno of Durango, Mexico, right, as she cheers with friends and family when white smoke pours out of the chimney of the Sistine Chapel indicating that a new Pope has been chosen in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, Italy on Tuesday, April 19, 2005.
     
  
Pope Benedict XVI rides through the crowd at the conclusion of the Mass for his Inauguration in St. Peter's Square in front of St. Peter's Basilica on Sunday, April 24, 2005 in Rome, Italy.
  
Pope Benedict XVI leaves his former residence just outside the Vatican after spending several hours there on Thursday, April 21, 2005, two days after he was named the new Pope.
  
Tourists, pilgrims and the faithful sit amid trash left behind after over 350,000 people filled St. Peter's Square for the Mass for the Inauguration of Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday, April 24, 2005 in Rome, Italy.
     
  
Pope Benedict XVI leaves the Vatican audience hall after blessing the media and guests at the Vatican on Saturday, April 23, 2005.