[Salvation]

Barber comments on publication from England.

[the invisib1e hand]

There’s only one problem. There’s no Ronald Reagan to stand up and say, “Mr. President, tear down this wall!”

[Salvation]

Indeed, the Pope took the English people by a quiet storm called love.

May God sustain the Pope!

[Talisker]

The Pope’s way too late - at best, he’s third in line to take possesion of Great Britain, first behind the Communists and second behind the Muslims.

[hinckley buzzard]

Yep. B-16 is a heavyweight. ABC is an ultralight.

[allmendream]

“The sense that this was a nation specially blessed by God arose from a deeply anti-Catholic reading of the Bible”

Yeah, how many times is England mentioned in the Bible? I don't care how anti-Catholic you try to read the Bible, it is hard to read into it that an unmentioned Island inhabited at the time by unlettered pagan barbarians is specially blessed by God.

And did English history START with Henry VIII, the wife killer? There were no good Catholic English Kings worthy of mention before that august personage who broke with the Catholic Church over his desire for a male heir and ever younger strumpets in his bed?

[GenXteacher]

The British empire died in 1945, upon the elevation of Clement Atlee and the Labour party to the government.

[Slyfox]

I can’t help but think about the many English martyrs who prayed that this day would come.

[nkycincinnatikid]

Good riddance

[sailor4321]

What has this guy been smoking? The British Empire ended decades ago!

[Aliska]

This was indeed a day of unthinkable events. Many Protestants will have been disturbed to see Pope Benedict XVI in Westminster Hall praising St Thomas More (who incidentally died to defend what he saw as the sovereignty of God)

I couldn't help but marvel at the beautiful mosaic of the Last Supper at Westminster Abbey during Princess Di's funeral (think that's where it was and she was married at St. Pauls?). I marveled then that it was once a Catholic church stolen from them.

But I see strengths and weaknesses on both sides of the great Protestant vs. Catholic divide. Neither side is blameless, and God allowed it where if it hadn't been for free will, He would not have had to. Let it go at that.

[Lorica]

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[Tennessee Nana]

Paper on Pope’s Visit: “This was the End of the British Empire”
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No you are nearly 100 years behind the times...

The British Empire started out Catholic...

“the End of the British Empire” was due to religion but not Catholicism...

It was when General Allenby and the British Army and government “cursed” the Jews in the Middle East during WWI ...

From that time on England lost one country after another...

And the sun set on the British Empire...

God promised Abraham “I when bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you..

God’s promise to Abraham has never been rescinded...

[Enchante]

I think the British Empire has been dead for quite some time.