1.   As the pontiff speaks against the death penalty, Rigali said, the pope is also denouncing violence.

2.   Smiling, the pontiff spoke for several minutes with a group of children who presented him a floral bouquet.

3.   The pontiff spoke to the faithful from his summer residence in the hills outside Rome, where he went Monday after a long and tiring week of Easter services.

4.   The pontiff was speaking during his weekly general audience, before thousands of faithful gathered inside the Paul VI hall at the Vatican.

5.   The pontiff was speaking from the balcony of his appartment a week after flu forced him to interrupt his traditional Christmas message.

6.   The pontiff was speaking to politicans, church leaders and the hundreds of people who gathered at the airport here to greet him on his arrival from Rome.