Pope Benedict XVI prays inside St Paul’s Grotto in Rabat, outside Valletta

Pope Benedict XVI prays inside St Paul’s Grotto in Rabat, outside Valletta April 17, 2010. Roman Catholicism has been “wounded by our sins”, Pope Benedict said at the start of a two-day visit to Malta, but he avoided directly referring to the sexual abuse scandals sweeping the world’s largest Church. The pope visited the grotto where Saint Paul is believed to have stayed when he came to Malta in 60 A.D., converting the islanders to Christianity. REUTERS/Osservatore Romano (MALTA – Tags: RELIGION POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY)