Playful remarks show lighter side of Pope Benedict

From: The Record (Bergen County, NJ) | Date: April 26, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

NICOLE WINFIELD, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
04-26-2005

Playful remarks show lighter side of Pope Benedict -- Joked that election made him feel 'dizzy'
By NICOLE WINFIELD, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Date: 04-26-2005, Tuesday
Section: NEWS
Edtion: All Editions

VATICAN CITY - He kissed babies, blessed people in wheelchairs and joked that he felt like a guillotine was falling on him when he realized that he might be elected pope.

He showed he had a sense of humor and knew how to work a crowd - traits the public rarely saw during his quarter-century as the stern German guardian of ...

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