If any year can be said to have made a difference to the United Kingdom’s relationship with the Holy See, it is 1982. Today Catholics recall it as the year when a pope first set foot on Britain’s soil, but reaching that point took hundreds of years. And there was a stumbling block along the
Parents must have the right to withdraw their children from relationship education, a Catholic MP has said. Sir Edward Leigh, the Conservative MP for Gainsborough, said that some would view new Government measures requiring relationship education to be taught to children as young as four as “a state takeover bid for parenting”. Sir Edward has
During the first papal visit to Egypt in the year 2000, Pope John Paul II addressed a gathering of Christians and Muslims. “We do not know each other sufficiently,” he said, “let us therefore find ways to meet.” Egyptians have, unfortunately, had to wait for almost two decades to meet the Successor of Peter again.
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