Photos courtesy of Day Life-AP & GettyPlus, the Pope receiving accredited Ambassadors:
Inside Scoop has an excellent piece regarding recent attacks against the Supreme Pontiff here.
He cites this passage below from the erstwhile Cardinal Ratzinger:
"The Successor of Peter is the rock which guarantees a rigorous fidelity to the Word of God against arbitrariness and conformism: hence the martyrological nature of his primacy".
