1.   A half dozen Americans missed a papal audience at the Vatican.

2.   According to both church leaders and diplomats, the likelihood the Cuban leader will be granted a papal audience during his stay there is high.

3.   Admittance to the paddock itself, the sanctum sanctorum of the drivers and their teams, is akin to a papal audience.

4.   He said he felt a special bond to the pope, whom he met at a papal audience two years ago.

5.   The Vatican, in fact, will soon put on sale Jubilee credit cards, allowing advance booking for everything from papal audiences to restaurants.

6.   Two sightseeing expeditions are included, as well as attendance at a papal audience on a Wednesday, a papal blessing on a Sunday and a Jubilee event.

7.   Congo President Laurent Kabila met with the mediators on Tuesday after a papal audience in which John Paul II urged him into talks with rebels in his own country.

8.   He returned to Italy for his papal audience on Sunday.

9.   In a break from Vatican protocol for papal audiences, Ronaldo wore a jacket but no tie.

10.   In the runup to the papal audience, the Vatican rejected criticism of the papal audience from the Iranian opposition in exile.