Pope Benedict XVI, sits next to Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone (R) and Archbishop Robert Zollitsch during a meeting with seminarians at the chapel of the seminary in Freiburg September 24, 2011. Pope Benedict straddled his homeland's religious and geographic divisions on Saturday, praising the faithful for enduring communism's "acid rain" effect in former East Germany and then addressing cheering Catholic crowds in the west. REUTERS/Wolfgang Radtke (GERMANY - Tags: RELIGION POLITICS)