Pope Benedict XVI's end-of-year speech to cardinals and bishops in the Clementine hall at the Vatican in Rome, Italy on december 21, 2012. At the end Benedict XVI exchanges Christmas wishes with the prelates. In his speech the pope pressed his opposition to gay marriage. Benedict XVI made the comments in his annual Christmas address to the Vatican bureaucracy, one of his most important speeches of the year. He dedicated it this year to promoting traditional family values in the face of vocal campaigns in some countries to legalize same-sex marriage. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM <motCle99> Benedict 16 Benoit 16 Benedict XVI Ratzinger Joseph Benoit XVI Pape Benoit XVI Pope Benedict XVI </motCle99> | 346417_003