The Vatican isn’t worried about the possibility of protests during Benedict XVI’s visit to the United Kingdom next week, says a spokesman.
Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi met today with journalists who asked about hostility toward the Sept. 16-19 Papal visit. A campaign called Protest the Pope is organizing a march through London on Sept. 18, which will voice concerns over the Church’s handling of the sexual abuse crisis, among other issues.
Father Lombardi said that with regard to the protests, “there is nothing on our part over which we must be worried,” and that such events are part “of the normal climate of a pluralist society, such as the British, in which there is great liberty of expression, and in which Catholics are a minority.”
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(Zenit) Vatican Not Sweating UK Protests
The Vatican isn’t worried about the possibility of protests during Benedict XVI’s visit to the United Kingdom next week, says a spokesman.
Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi met today with journalists who asked about hostility toward the Sept. 16-19 Papal visit. A campaign called Protest the Pope is organizing a march through London on Sept. 18, which will voice concerns over the Church’s handling of the sexual abuse crisis, among other issues.
Father Lombardi said that with regard to the protests, “there is nothing on our part over which we must be worried,” and that such events are part “of the normal climate of a pluralist society, such as the British, in which there is great liberty of expression, and in which Catholics are a minority.”
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