Francisco Franco (Vatican, 1939)

with Queen Elizabeth II

at the United Nations on October 4, 1965

with Josip Broz Tito (Yugoslavia)

with Peter Hans Kolvenbach (Jesuit general)

with Andrew Bertie (SMOM head)

with royal Pilgrim Society member Queen Elizabeth II (SMOM and more)

with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip

Juan Carlos I (King of Spain and Jerusalem) (SMOM and more)

with Otto von Habsburg (SMOM and more)

with Prince Rainier III (Monaco)

at the United Nations on October 2, 1979

Pope John Paul II addresses the United Nations in 1995. See also: "UN General Assembly tribute to Pope John Paul II"

with Tony Blair (SMOM)

with George W. Bush

Pope John Paul II funeral with George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and others.

with Bill Clinton

with Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton

with Dick Cheney

with Ronald Reagan (SMOM)

Pope at the end of an audience with Patriarch Raphael I of Iraq where "the Pope bowed to the Muslim holy book the Qu'ran presented to him by the delegation and kissed it as a sign of respect". [1]

with the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, at the Vatican, November 27, 2003 [2]

with Fidel Castro (SMOM)

with Augusto Pinochet

with Yasser Arafat (Palestine)

with Abdullah II of Jordan

with Bashar al-Assad (Syria)

with Hosni Mubarak (Egypt)

with Ariel Sharon (Israel)

with Ezer Weizman (Israel)

with Moshe Katsav (Israel)

with Mikhail Gorbachev

with Boris Yeltsin

with Vladimir Putin (SMOM)

with Lech Walesa

with Václav Havel (Czechoslovakia)

with Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (Tunesia)

with queen Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard| (Order of the Golden Fleece)

with Ferdinand Marcos (Philippines)

with Imelda Marcos (Philippines)

with Martin Sheen (US actor)

with Paul David Hewson ("Bono", Irish popstar)

Stamp series of Pope John Paul II

with Matthew Festing and other SMOM members.

Pope Ratzinger addresses the UN General Assembly on April 18, 2008.

Pope Ratzinger blesses the UN flag, New York, April 18, 2008.

with Otto von Habsburg (SMOM and more)

with Angela Merkel at the Palace of the Bavaria President on September 9, 2006 in Munich, Germany. [3]

"Pope Benedict XVI is welcomed after his arrival by German chancellor Angela Merkel (3rd L), German Minister president Horst Koehler (2nd R) and Bavarians Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber (R) at the airport for his pastoral visit to his native Bavaria on September 9, 2006 in Munich, Germany. The Bavarian capital Munich is one of the most important stations..." [4]

Nicolas Sarkozy visits Pope Ratzinger on 20-12-2007 [5]

with G.W. Bush

US visit, april 16 2008. [6]

with (Pilgrim Society member) Henry "Heinz" Kissinger

Pope Benedict XVI (right), shakes hands with (SMOM) New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg (left) while (SMOM) Cardinal Edward Egan, archbishop of New York, watches on the steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. (2008)

with Vladimir Putin

with Nouri al-Maliki (video) (Iraq)

with Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud (Saudi Arabia)

with Ahmet Necdet Sezer (president of Turkey)

with Shimon Peres (Israel)

with Ehud Olmert (Israel)

with Hugo Chavez

with Hugo Chavez

with Eddie Fenech Adami (prime minister of Malta)

with Mary McAleese (president of Ireland)

with Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (president of the Philippines)

with Lech Kaczynski (president of Poland)

with Valdas Adamkus (president of Lithuania)

with Albert Pintat Santolària (head of government Andorra)

with Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete (president of Tanzania)

with François Bozizé (president of Central African Republic) [7]

with Zeljko Komsic (president of Bosnia and Herzegovina) [8]

with Geir H. Haarde (Iceland)

with Ali Bardakoğlu president of Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı (Presidency of Religious Affairs, and as such the highest Islamic authority in Turkey) [9]

Ratzinger with 5 new ambassadors to the Holy See: Ayesha Riyaz of Pakistan, Larus Stefansson of Iceland, Juri Seilenthal of Estonia, Domitille Barancira of Burundi and Ahmed Hamid Elfaki Hamid of Sudan. [10]

"Controversy as Pope meets with Polish Anti-Semite"

Nancy Pelosi kissing the hand of Pope Ratzinger.

Tim Russert (see also: "Tim Russert" articles)

[11]

Pope Ratzinger wears a red "Saturno hat" (or "Cappello romano"), inspired by the ringed planet Saturn, to shield himself from the sun as he waves to the crowd of faithful prior to his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Wednesday.

with SMOM members George H.W. Bush and Michael Bloomberg, at the annual Al Smith dinner [12]

Pope Benedict XVI (right), shakes hands with (SMOM) New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg (left) while Cardinal Edward Egan, archbishop of New York, watches on the steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. (2008)

with (Jesuit, Sinn Féin president) Gerry Adams

"Da sinistra, il giudice Antonio Scalia con sua moglie Maureen; il cardinale Edward Egan, arcivescovo di New York; e Lawrence Auriana davanti alla Cattedrale di San Patrizio, a New York, in occasione della Columbus Day Parade di quest'anno." [13]