PICTURES AND VIDEOS

Awww, Papa what's going on ? Sad ? Bored ?


O yes, here's the beautiful smile again

Does anyone walk more elegantly than Joseph Ratzinger?
Paparaxvi's archive photos show him in typical stride - and
I for one get instant tachycardia watching him walk. (That's one of the reasons why I love the Masses at the Vatican, in which he does a lot of walking, as he did this morning!)

PHOTO CALENDARS OF PAPA

I agree with NanMN. I want one of Paparatzifan's calendars too. All the photos I've seen here (very few available) are not Papa's best shots. I think the photos taken at the audiences and elsewhere have been far superior. Those just posted from the calendar were great. So how do we get one? (Great for decorating the cell block too.) Wouldn't it be neat to get one for joining this forum? Just kidding, Ratzigirl.

Some time around October, e-Bay started advertising a number of different B16 calendars for 2006, among them the two pictured below. The small calendar is among those in Paparatzifan's montage of items she bought in Rome last November. So if you don't know anyone in Rome who can buy the calendars for you, there's always E-bay.


But the big pictures must come from the calendar you see here in Paparaxvi's montage of her mementoes, because the same calendar appears in Paparatzifan's collection:

So look for it on e-Bay.

STUNC AND SMUACK!!!

omg!!!!!
he walks so gracefully and so elegant!!!

like i said he has a face of a boy!

Unless I am color-blind, Benedict's baby blues were strikingly on display in the picture used by L'Osservatore Romano on its front page yesterday on the feast of the Immaculate Conception :




One of the Italian girls noted months ago that the Pope has what she referred to as "cat's eyes" - they change color according to lighting and circumstances, so his eyes have photographed grey, green, hazel, blue with a brown center, or an intense azure blue such as he was born with. [At that time, Ratzigirl ran a series of pictures showing him with different eye "colors".]

In section of main forum "Il Papa e i bambini" I posted this photo very tender!!!!
What do you think about?




Lovely baby...lovely pope....!!!

PAPA AND BABIES

I love all those photos of Papa with kids, especially babies. The photo above from Les Combes also shows Papa with a full head of hair, something we haven't seen in too long a time. He seems to really enjoy kissing babies and hugging children, something most academics do NOT usually like at all. But then he is very different from most academics and seems very child-like himself. My favorite baby picture of him is kissing a baby that looks just two or three weeks old and is being passed through the security people to him. The security guys are laughing because the baby is so tiny.

Is it a growing trend at the audiences now to offer Papa alternative headgear? Here's another one from Euge in the main forum:

From the Vatican's Photo Gallery, via Ratzigirl:

I like this "jazzy" variation on "Tutti pazzi per Papa Ratzi"
Everyone's crazy for Papa Ratzi) which first surfaced at the WYD in Cologne among the Italian delegations.


This one we have seen before, in which some kids tell it like it is - "Benedict, you are beautiful!" But then, perhaps a prudent priest told them to add the line "We love you...like a brother!" - though I do not think that was necessary; they're only kids!

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Ratzigirl thank you again so much... you are spoiling us with all the wonderful photos and your attention!

About the photo of Papa kissing the baby... I think "lucky baby!" There was a picture just a few days ago, I think the caption was 2 angels meet... it looks like the little girl is placing her fingers to her lips to blow a kiss to Papa...

Papa "dressed up" for Our Lady yesterday, didn't he? Emeralds on the pectoral cross and ermine trimming on his capelet! And the stole is magnificent - it has his papal coat of arms!
The only thing this picture lacks is the huge basket of pink Rosa Mistica roses which he offered to the Immacolata. (I am glad someone at the Vatican had the sense to order the flowers in a basket, not arranged into a wreath or some tapestry-like pattern like the other floral offerings.)

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Ratzi with Karl Rahner (left) and someone identified only as M. Biallas, February 1977 - One of the pictures brought back by Paparatzifan from her "archive" in Buenos Aires. Both companions appear to have full ashtrays in front of them (poor Ratzi, flanked by two chain-smokers! Ratzi's beer glass is empty but he seems to have a less-than-half-full glass of lemonade beside it.


Gorgeous Ratzi - welcomed in Freising as new archbishop, 1977.

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@Teresa
This is a very rare photo where Papa is wearing a "normal" suit. He looks gorgious!

The glasses:
Could it not be that his is the empty glass and the half full one belongs to the gentleman at his right? And it's probably beer (Pils) in there? Because nobody would offer lemonade in a beer glass.....I hope.

With thanks to one of my favorite Catholic bloggers, curt jester at spelendoroftruth.com:

Let me correct curt jester's address (misspelled in the post above, which I can't edit because I failed to log in when I did the post) - curt jester is at splendoroftruth.com.
[I love his website address even.]

Ratzi in full choir dress and sunglasses