http://opusdeitoday.org/2010/03/pope-benedict-xvi-coming-to-the-uk-this-september/
The official news is out! Please follow the Papal Visit site from this point onwards…
“Welcome to the official website for Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the United Kingdom. The Holy Father will visit England and Scotland on a four-day State visit from 16-19 September 2010. On this site, you will be able to fully engage with the visit, sign up for regular updates, look back on Pope John Paul II’s Pastoral Visit to the UK nearly 30 years ago in 1982, and play an interactive part in this historic visit. On the final day, Pope Benedict will beatify John Henry Newman - making the much-loved Cardinal a “Blessed”. Please keep the Holy Father and the Bishops of England, Wales and Scotland in your prayers as we prepare for the first State visit by a Pope to the UK.”
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Itinerary
Pope Benedict XVI will visit England and Scotland on a four-day state visit from 16-19 September 2010.
Scotland
Pope Benedict will be received at the Palace of Holyroodhouse by Her Majesty The Queen.
He will celebrate a public Mass in Glasgow.
Midlands
His Holiness will also visit the West Midlands to beatify the nineteenth century theologian and educationalist Cardinal John Henry Newman at a public mass in Coventry.
London
His Holiness will give a major speech to British civil society at Westminster Hall.
He will be present at a prayer vigil.
There will be an event focusing on education.
Relations between the Christian Churches will be a theme of the visit as will the relations between the major faiths.
The Holy Father will visit the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace.
Pope Benedict will pray with other Church leaders at Westminster Abbey.
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