Pope gets 21 gun salute. Made I chuckle.
And amazingly they were not all pointed at him. Or loaded with live ammo.. Does he not care that they are shooting blanks! Still - he is (nominally) the head of a soverign country (The Vatican) to I guess they would play it safe. Phil.
Sure, they've little/no choice diplomatically. An added chuckle was the fact of the obergruppenpriest's more sophisticated use of a second language during his speech, compared to Bush's use of his first.[1] [1] I was bored, I listened to the speeches, I'm sorry, OK.