Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger, has wasted no time in placing his own iron-fisted stamp on the office of the pontifex maximus of the Roman Catholic church. Signifying a return to the moral values of his German upbringing and his strict adherence to doctrine, the first act of the new pontiff was to update one of the most well-known Christian devotions...


The Pope demonstrates the new "papal salute", to be demanded of all his subjects forthwith.

The Lord's Prayer 2005

By Pope Benedict XVI


By papal decree, the "kreuzwaffe" is to be the new official sigil of the Catholic church.



Return to main page