Pope Benedict In Lebanon: The Big Floating Rosary & Other Photos
Pope Benedict XVI made a sweeping appeal Sunday for peace in Syria and the Middle East, decrying the violence “which generates so much suffering. "Why so much horror? Why so many dead,” Benedict said.
(A Lebanese worshiper holds a huge cross as he attends a mass held by Pope Benedict XVI on the waterfront in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday Sept. 16, 2012. The Pope celebrated an open-air mass for tens of thousands of pilgrims from across the Middle East, sayingChristians must do their part to end the \"grim trail of death and destruction\" in the region. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla))