Cardinal Walter Kasper

Cardinals Walter Kasper, left, leaves St. Peter’s Basilica with Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze and Syrian Cardinal Daoud Ignace Maoussa I after viewing the body of the late Pope John Paul II laying in state in 2005. Photo by Tony Gentile/Reuters.

-PHOTO TAKEN 04APR05- Cardinals Walter Kasper from Germany, Francis Arinze from Nigeria (C) and Daoud Ignace Maoussa I from Syria leave Saint Peter’s Basilica after viewing the late Pope John Paul laying in state at the Vatican April 4, 2005. [Up to two million people are expected for the funeral on Friday as well as almost 200 world leaders in an unprecedented salute for a pontiff who helped bring down the Iron Curtain and stamped an uncompromising orthodoxy on his own faith.] Picture taken April 4, 2005. – RTXNCGN