Sunday, September 19, 2010

Vatican Says Pope's UK Visit a "Great Success;" Challenged Whole Country to Sit Up and Think

The Vatican declared today (September 19, 2010) that Pope Benedict XVI's four-day visit to the United Kingdom (UK) was a "great success," saying the pontiff was able to reach out to a nation wary of his message and angry at his church's sex-abuse scandal, according to the Christian Broadcast Network website.

Today -- on his final day in Britain -- Benedict praised British heroics against the Nazis to mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.

Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said the important thing was not so much the turnout -- crowds were much smaller than when Pope John Paul II visited Britain in 1982 -- but that Benedict's warning about the dangers of increasingly secularized society had been received "with profound interest" from Britons.

Prime Minister David Cameron said the Pope had "challenged the whole country to sit up and think, and that can only be a good thing."

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