[Pyro7480]

This tells you how far apart the US and the UK are these days. When the Pope visited here in 2008, the bulk of the protesters were Protestants of various stripes. When he visits there later this year, I bet the bulk of the protesters will be leftists and radical Muslim types, Iain Paisley notwithstanding.

[Pyro7480]

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[Logic n' Reason]

Nah....the vatican (or "papal state") is running out of money.

He's going to the UK to ask for all his monasteries back.

[marshmallow]

I'll bet Muslim protestors will be scarce.

You'll see anarchists, feminists, secularists, leftists and the usual lavender gang. Lots of the latter.

From Damian Thompson at The Daily Telegraph today:

"Incidentally, I’ve just had a look at the way the Times is reporting this story. “Benedict XVI launches attack on Labour’s equality push” is the headline, which is accurate. But Ruth Gledhill also says: “It is highly unusual for a foreign head of state or church leader to intervene so directly in the legislative process of a Protestant state…” That is a silly exaggeration, but very revealing: not only of Ms Gledhill’s curiously paranoid way of reporting anything to do with the Catholic Church, but also of the Times’s anti-Benedict agenda. Expect a great deal of troublemaking from that direction in the run-up to the papal visit."

Take The Times with a grain of salt as it tries to stir the pot over the Pope's visit using Anglicanorum coetibus, homosexual "rights" and anything else which it can get its hands on.

[markomalley]

Dang, sounds like that "one world religion" isn't working out so well…I thought the general idea was that the Antichrist was supposed to have the majority of the world's people on his side...

 

 

 

 

 

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[NYer]

This tells you how far apart the US and the UK are these days.

And the following CNN version of this absurd story tells you how close the American media are, to their UK counterparts.

Pope wades into UK gay clergy battle

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[Vanders9]

I remember the day he came. I was watching it, alone, in our university common TV room. Even the Catholics in the hall were absent. I couldn't believe that such a significant event did not attract more interest.

Do you remember there was a by-election going on in Scotland at the time, and one Pastor Jack Glass stood on the platform of "protestant crusade against the papal visit". You're right, there won't be much of that this time. Protestants and Catholics in the UK are increasingly sinking their differences in the face of the common foe - godless secularism.