Due to concerns about people from the Balkans making it in as illegal immigrants, visitors to Germany for World Youth Day will be quizzed on their Christianity. You fail, you don't get a visa.
Papal: July 2005 Archives
Pope softens his granite oratory, and his image
International Herald Tribune Mon, 04 Jul 2005 6:53 AM PDT
"Supporters and skeptics alike say Pope Benedict is revealing himself as a man more complicated, subtle and personally warm than many had expected from his years as the Vatican's defender of the faith."