A crowd of several thousand, including animals in ecclesiastical attire, greeted Pope Benedict XVI on a visit to a church in his home city of Regensburg, Germany.
The Pope, 79, spent a largely private day with his brother, Father Georg Ratzinger, visiting the graves of their parents and sister.
The former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger made one political comment on his Bavaria trip, criticising the Islamic concept of a jihad, or holy war, in an address at a university. (AP)