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Temple guard Khalif Wyatt (1) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against the Kansas in Lawrence, Kan., Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013. Kansas defeated Temple 69-62. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
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Pope Benedict XVI greets U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta after the pontiff's weekly general audience in Paul VI Hall at the Vatican on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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“For Russia without Herod,” proclaims the words on some of the posters of Vladimir Putin. Opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov burns a portrait of the Russian president during the protest. (Associated Press)
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“For Russia without Herod,” proclaims the words on some of the posters of Vladimir Putin. Opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov burns a portrait of the Russian president during the protest. (Associated Press)
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Police officers stop members of a group of four women who went topless to protest the Vatican's opposition to gay marriage in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013. Police quickly took the women away, and the pope appeared not to have been disturbed as he delivered his traditional prayer from his studio window overlooking the piazza. On their bare backs, the women had painted the slogans "In Gay We Trust" and "Shut Up. (AP Photo/Angelo Carconi)
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Pakistani Shiite Muslims chant slogans during a protest in Karachi, Pakistan, on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013, to condemn Thursday's deadly bombings in Quetta. Thousands of Pakistani Shiites protested in southwestern Pakistan for a second day on Saturday, blocking a main road with dozens of coffins of relatives killed in explosions to demand better security from the government. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
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Demonstrators carry red placards with the words 'One father, one mother, it's obvious" in Paris on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013, as thousands of protesters mobilized against the French president's plan to legalize gay marriage. The placard at center reads: "Pro-marriage, not anti-gay." (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
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The Rev. Louie Giglio of Atlanta, who was to deliver the benediction at President Obama’s inauguration, withdrew from the ceremony on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, after gay and lesbian groups protested anti-gay remarks he had made in the 1990s. (Associated Press)
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Catholic devotees jostle near the centuries-old image of the Black Nazarene on its feast day Wednesday in Manila. The Catholic Church no longer sways the masses on issues such as birth control as it once did. (Associated Press)