A Visit of Encouragement and Hope (Father Andrew Mackenzie, Rector, St Lawrence’s Church)
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011I am writing just a week after Pope Benedict XVI returned to the Vatican after his historic four-day visit to the UK. I believe that the papal visit has been vastly more successful than many, perhaps most, people had predicted. For faithful Catholics in the UK (and, it seems, for those returning to their faith) his visit has been intensely moving, uplifting, encouraging, re-affirming and, as one Lancastrian lady proclaimed, “simply awesome”.
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