Pope Benedict XVI shakes hands with Stefan Vesper (R) during a meeting with the Presidium of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) 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)