The Pope Calendar

I'm sure you guys have heard about His Holiness posing for a calendar in Italy. The proceeds from the sales will go to charity to fund a school in Rwanda.

Here's some excerpts from the calendar, via the BBC. All the captions are taken from the BBC site.

[Andrew: His Holiness Pope] Benedict was invited to feature on Italian magazine Famiglia Cristiana's 2007 charity wall calendar. Calendar images reprinted by permission of photographer Giancarlo Giuliani.

Mr Giuliani, a trusted papal photographer, was allowed to spend a day following the Pope at his summer residence.

This picture suggests a pontiff keeping in the background, says Vatican observer John Wilkins.

Benedict at prayer before the famous Polish icon of the Black Virgin of Czestochowa, a favourite of his predecessor [Andrew: His Holiness Pope] John Paul II. [of Blessed memory.]

The bookish pope's calendar is accompanied by quotations about love from his first papal encyclical.

And here we see the Mozart-lover at his piano, in one of the palace's humbler rooms.

Perhaps the most symbolic of all the pictures on the calendar: Benedict the reflective pope.
[Andrew: The reflective Pope, as in the reflection in the pool, get it? LOL!]

Proceeds from the sale of the calendar are going to Nazareth Town, an aid project for children in Mbare, Rwanda.