00 21/04/2015 03:05


Can someone tell me, please, when this photo was taken? I have not seen it before, nor anything like it: B16 and PF having an informal chat with - is it Cardinal Brandmueller? - as the other party to the chat! It couldn't have been after one of the Masses or the consistory B16 attended, because the Pope would have been in Mass vestments. It does not look like it was taken at the Vatican Gardens when the St. Michael statue was unveiled, which is the only informal public occasion I can recall with both Popes present. Did I miss an event? ACISTAMPA (the Italian edition of CNA) used it to illustrate a 10th-anniversary piece which chose to present Benedict XVI in the eyes of his successor - at least, what the latter has said publicly of him in the past two years.