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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV greets Riccardo Muti at the end of the concert. Maestro Riccardo Muti's concert with the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra and the "Guido Chigi Saracini" Siena Cathedral Choir in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican. On this occasion, Muti receives the prestigious "Ratzinger Prize," established in 2011 and awarded annually, with the Pope's approval, to eminent figures in the fields of Christian culture and art, on December 12, 2025. Photo by Marco Iacobucci/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

Riccardo Muti thanks the Pope at the end of the concert. Maestro Riccardo Muti with the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra and the "Guido Chigi Saracini" Siena Cathedral Choir in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican. On this occasion, Muti receives the prestigious "Ratzinger Prize," established in 2011 and awarded annually, with the Pope's approval, to eminent figures in the fields of Christian culture and art, on December 12, 2025. Photo by Marco Iacobucci/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

Riccardo Muti greets and receives the Ratzinger Prize from Pope Leo XIV. Pope Leo XIV listens to Maestro Riccardo Muti's concert with the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra and the "Guido Chigi Saracini" Siena Cathedral Choir in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican. On this occasion, Muti receives the prestigious "Ratzinger Prize," established in 2011 and awarded annually, with the Pope's approval, to eminent figures in the fields of Christian culture and art, on December 12, 2025. Photo by Marco Iacobucci/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV attends a Christmas concert conducted by Italian conductor Riccardo Muti who will be awarded with the Ratzinger prize, in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, on December 12, 2025. Photo by Alessia Giuliani/CPP/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

Riccardo Muti greets and receives the Ratzinger Prize from Pope Leo XIV. Pope Leo XIV listens to Maestro Riccardo Muti's concert with the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra and the "Guido Chigi Saracini" Siena Cathedral Choir in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican. On this occasion, Muti receives the prestigious "Ratzinger Prize," established in 2011 and awarded annually, with the Pope's approval, to eminent figures in the fields of Christian culture and art, on December 12, 2025. Photo by Marco Iacobucci/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV greets Riccardo Muti at the end of the concert. Maestro Riccardo Muti's concert with the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra and the "Guido Chigi Saracini" Siena Cathedral Choir in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican. On this occasion, Muti receives the prestigious "Ratzinger Prize," established in 2011 and awarded annually, with the Pope's approval, to eminent figures in the fields of Christian culture and art, on December 12, 2025. Photo by Marco Iacobucci/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

Riccardo Muti thanks the Pope at the end of the concert. Maestro Riccardo Muti with the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra and the "Guido Chigi Saracini" Siena Cathedral Choir in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican. On this occasion, Muti receives the prestigious "Ratzinger Prize," established in 2011 and awarded annually, with the Pope's approval, to eminent figures in the fields of Christian culture and art, on December 12, 2025. Photo by Marco Iacobucci/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV attends a Christmas concert conducted by Italian conductor Riccardo Muti who will be awarded with the Ratzinger prize, in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, on December 12, 2025. Photo by Alessia Giuliani/CPP/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

Maestro Riccardo Muti with the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra and the "Guido Chigi Saracini" Siena Cathedral Choir in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican. On this occasion, Muti will receive the prestigious "Ratzinger Prize," established in 2011 and awarded annually, with the Pope's approval, to eminent figures in the fields of Christian culture and art, on December 12, 2025. Photo by Marco Iacobucci/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV attends a Christmas concert conducted by Italian conductor Riccardo Muti who will be awarded with the Ratzinger prize, in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, on December 12, 2025. Photo by Alessia Giuliani/CPP/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

Riccardo Muti greets and receives the Ratzinger Prize from Pope Leo XIV. Pope Leo XIV listens to Maestro Riccardo Muti's concert with the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra and the "Guido Chigi Saracini" Siena Cathedral Choir in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican. On this occasion, Muti receives the prestigious "Ratzinger Prize," established in 2011 and awarded annually, with the Pope's approval, to eminent figures in the fields of Christian culture and art, on December 12, 2025. Photo by Marco Iacobucci/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV greets Riccardo Muti at the end of the concert. Maestro Riccardo Muti's concert with the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra and the "Guido Chigi Saracini" Siena Cathedral Choir in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican. On this occasion, Muti receives the prestigious "Ratzinger Prize," established in 2011 and awarded annually, with the Pope's approval, to eminent figures in the fields of Christian culture and art, on December 12, 2025. Photo by Marco Iacobucci/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

Riccardo Muti greets and receives the Ratzinger Prize from Pope Leo XIV. Pope Leo XIV listens to Maestro Riccardo Muti's concert with the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra and the "Guido Chigi Saracini" Siena Cathedral Choir in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican. On this occasion, Muti receives the prestigious "Ratzinger Prize," established in 2011 and awarded annually, with the Pope's approval, to eminent figures in the fields of Christian culture and art, on December 12, 2025. Photo by Marco Iacobucci/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV and Italian Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani (L) during a Christmas concert conducted by Italian conductor Riccardo Muti who will be awarded with the Ratzinger prize, in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, on December 12, 2025. Photo by Alessia Giuliani/CPP/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM In the photo Monsignor Georg Gaenswein

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV listens to a concert by Maestro Riccardo Muti with the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra and the "Guido Chigi Saracini" Siena Cathedral Choir in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican. On this occasion, Muti receives the prestigious "Ratzinger Prize," established in 2011 and awarded annually, with the Pope's approval, to eminent figures in the fields of Christian culture and art, on December 12, 2025. Photo by Marco Iacobucci/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV attends a Christmas concert conducted by Italian conductor Riccardo Muti who will be awarded with the Ratzinger prize, in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, on December 12, 2025. Photo by Alessia Giuliani/CPP/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV attends a Christmas concert conducted by Italian conductor Riccardo Muti who will be awarded with the Ratzinger prize, in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, on December 12, 2025. Photo by Alessia Giuliani/CPP/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV attends a Christmas concert conducted by Italian conductor Riccardo Muti who will be awarded with the Ratzinger prize, in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, on December 12, 2025. Photo by Alessia Giuliani/CPP/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

Christmas concert conducted by Italian conductor Riccardo Muti who will be awarded with the Ratzinger prize, in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, on December 12, 2025. Photo by Alessia Giuliani/CPP/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM In the photo, Cristina Mazzavillani (T), wife of Riccardo Muti

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV attends a Christmas concert conducted by Italian conductor Riccardo Muti who will be awarded with the Ratzinger prize, in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, on December 12, 2025. Photo by Alessia Giuliani/CPP/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

Italian conductor Riccardo Muti receives the 2025 ‘Ratzinger Prize’ from Pope Leo XIV,after he conducted the Cherubini’s ‘Mass for the Coronation of Charles X’ at a Christmas concert in the Paul VI Hall at The Vatican on December 12, 2025. The concert, held in honour of the Pope also marked the awarding of the 2025 Ratzinger Prize to the world-renowned conductor. Photo by (EV) Simone Risoluti/ Vatican Media/ ABACAPRESS.COM

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

In the presence of Pope Leo XIV, Maestro Riccardo Muti conducts Cherubini’s ‘Mass for the Coronation of Charles X’ at a Christmas concert in the Paul VI Hall at The Vatican on December 12, 2025. The concert, held in honour of the Pope also marked the awarding of the 2025 Ratzinger Prize to the world-renowned conductor. Photo by (EV) Simone Risoluti/ Vatican Media/ ABACAPRESS.COM

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

In the presence of Pope Leo XIV, Maestro Riccardo Muti conducts Cherubini’s ‘Mass for the Coronation of Charles X’ at a Christmas concert in the Paul VI Hall at The Vatican on December 12, 2025. The concert, held in honour of the Pope also marked the awarding of the 2025 Ratzinger Prize to the world-renowned conductor. Photo by (EV) Simone Risoluti/ Vatican Media/ ABACAPRESS.COM

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

In the presence of Pope Leo XIV, Maestro Riccardo Muti conducts Cherubini’s ‘Mass for the Coronation of Charles X’ at a Christmas concert in the Paul VI Hall at The Vatican on December 12, 2025. The concert, held in honour of the Pope also marked the awarding of the 2025 Ratzinger Prize to the world-renowned conductor. Photo by (EV) Simone Risoluti/ Vatican Media/ ABACAPRESS.COM

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

In the presence of Pope Leo XIV, Maestro Riccardo Muti conducts Cherubini’s ‘Mass for the Coronation of Charles X’ at a Christmas concert in the Paul VI Hall at The Vatican on December 12, 2025. The concert, held in honour of the Pope also marked the awarding of the 2025 Ratzinger Prize to the world-renowned conductor. Photo by (EV) Simone Risoluti/ Vatican Media/ ABACAPRESS.COM

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

In the presence of Pope Leo XIV, Maestro Riccardo Muti conducts Cherubini’s ‘Mass for the Coronation of Charles X’ at a Christmas concert in the Paul VI Hall at The Vatican on December 12, 2025. The concert, held in honour of the Pope also marked the awarding of the 2025 Ratzinger Prize to the world-renowned conductor. Photo by (EV) Simone Risoluti/ Vatican Media/ ABACAPRESS.COM

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

In the presence of Pope Leo XIV, Maestro Riccardo Muti conducts Cherubini’s ‘Mass for the Coronation of Charles X’ at a Christmas concert in the Paul VI Hall at The Vatican on December 12, 2025. The concert, held in honour of the Pope also marked the awarding of the 2025 Ratzinger Prize to the world-renowned conductor. Photo by (EV) Simone Risoluti/ Vatican Media/ ABACAPRESS.COM

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

In the presence of Pope Leo XIV, Maestro Riccardo Muti conducts Cherubini’s ‘Mass for the Coronation of Charles X’ at a Christmas concert in the Paul VI Hall at The Vatican on December 12, 2025. The concert, held in honour of the Pope also marked the awarding of the 2025 Ratzinger Prize to the world-renowned conductor. Photo by (EV) Simone Risoluti/ Vatican Media/ ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Aerial Rome - Italy

ITALY - ROMA - VATICAN - VATICAN GARDENS : MONASTERY MATER ECCLESIAE OF THE NUNS, WHICH BECAME THE RESIDENCE OF BENEDICT XVI. TO WELCOME THE FORMER POPE, WORK HAS BEEN DONE ON THIS FOUR-STOREY BUILDING, WHICH HAS A CHAPEL, AN ORGANIC GARDEN AND A ROOF TERRACE WITH VIEWS OF ST. PETER'S BASILICA AND THE VATICAN GARDENS, WHERE JOSEPH RATZINGER LIKES TO WALK IN THE AFTERNOON. IN THE FOREGROUND, THE KITCHEN GARDEN OF THE POPE. VEGETABLES ARE GROWN AND FRUITS ARE HARVESTED, ALL OF WHICH ARE 100% NATURAL AND DESTINED FOR THE PAPAL TABLE. THE WATER USED FOR WATERING, LIKE ALL THE WATER USED TO WATER THE 300 PLANT SPECIES AND 6.500 SPECIMENS OF GARDEN PLANTS, COMES DIRECTLY FROM LAKE BRACCIANO. IN THE PAST, THIS PURE WATER PASSED THROUGH THE ANCIENT ROMAN AQUEDUCT OF TRAJAN. ON BACKGROUND LEFT, THE VATICAN RADIO TOWER. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Francis Dies Aged 88

File photo - Retired Pope Benedict XVI is publicly defending the Catholic Church’s traditional rule of priestly celibacy, the former pontiff’s most explicit effort so far to influence a decision by his successor Pope Francis, who is considering a proposal to routinely ordain married men as Roman Catholic priests for the first time in almost a millennium. -- At the end of a consistory ceremony Pope Francis and a group of cardinals meet with Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in a chapel at the Vatican on November 19, 2016. Pope Francis created 17 new Cardinals in St. Peter's Basilica, during an Ordinary Public Consistory he had convoked for that purpose: 13 Cardinal-electors, and four Cardinals above the age of 80, who received the 'Red Hat' in recognition of their exemplary service to the Church and witness to the Gospel. -- Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta. Photo by ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Francis Dies Aged 88

File photo - File photo - Pope Francis visited Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at his residence, the former Convent Mater Ecclesiae, in the Vatican on June 30, 2015 to greet him and wish him a pleasant stay in Castel Gandolfo in the Roman hills. Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI is leaving the Vatican for his first sojourn since retiring. He's escaping an impending heat wave by heading to the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo. The meeting lasted about half and hour. Pope Emeritus Benedict will remain in Castel Gandolfo for the next two weeks. He is scheduled to return on July 14. - Former Pope Benedict XVI has died at his Vatican residence, aged 95, almost a decade after he stood down because of ailing health. He led the Catholic Church for less than eight years until, in 2013, he became the first Pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415. -- Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta. Photo by ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Francis Dies Aged 88

File photo - Pope Francis exchanges Christmas greetings with former Pope Benedict XVI in the Mater Ecclesiae monastery, his new residence, in Vatican City on December 23, 2013. Together they went to the Chapel of the Monastery to share a 'moment of prayer. -- Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta. Photo by ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Francis Dies Aged 88

File photo - Retired Pope Benedict XVI is publicly defending the Catholic Church’s traditional rule of priestly celibacy, the former pontiff’s most explicit effort so far to influence a decision by his successor Pope Francis, who is considering a proposal to routinely ordain married men as Roman Catholic priests for the first time in almost a millennium. -- Pope Francis hosted a celebration for the 65th anniversary of the priestly ordination of his predecessor Benedict, the pope emeritus at the Vatican on June 28, 2016. Joseph Ratzinger, who took the name Benedict XVI when he was elected to the papacy in 2005, attended the celebration in the Sala Clementina within the Apostolic Palace. More than thirty cardinals were also present, as well as a number of other invited guests. Benedict XVI, was ordained a priest June 29, 1951, the feast of Saints Peter and Paul , in the cathedral of Freising. His older brother Georg was ordained with him. -- Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 a

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Sotoo wins Ratzinger Prize

Japanese sculptor Etsuro Sotoo (C) is pictured after receiving the Ratzinger Prize for his work on the Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona, Spain, during a ceremony in Vatican City on Nov. 22, 2024.

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Sotoo wins Ratzinger Prize

Japanese sculptor Etsuro Sotoo delivers a speech as he receives the Ratzinger Prize for his work on the Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona, Spain, during a ceremony in Vatican City on Nov. 22, 2024.

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Cardinal Ratzinger of Germany elected new pope

ROME, Italy - Catholics celebrate the election of German cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as the new pope at St. Peter's square at the Vatican on April 19. He took the name Benedict XVI.

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Cardinal Ratzinger of Germany elected new pope

ROME, Italy - Catholics celebrate the election of German cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as the new pope at St. Peter's square at the Vatican on April 19. He took the name Benedict XVI. (Kyodo)