I kid you not. Here they are, in Cologne, Germany, for the World Festival of Youth:

Oh Benedict! You’re so dreamy!

Spanish babes

Pope gets next to a Guadalajara babe.

Aussie babes.

They like him

A little candlelight

A Spanish revolutionary babe whose swapped her mantilla for a bandana

Babes galore

More Aussie babes – or there’s this one.

Who says washed-up Euro peaceniks can’t be revolutionaries?

Future babes

Philippines babe

Italians – always in revolutionary style.

Nicaraguan babes

Much better than the Cuban beer the Chavista Youth got stuck drinking. This article here says that most were drinking Bavarian-brewed beer with the pope’s photo on it. Take that, Hugo!

B-16, d’ya know what I mean?

SOURCE: El Universal, Yahoo!, and official WJT Web site.