Pope Benedict XVI is midway through his trip to the United Kingdom, and so far reaction has been all over the map, from wild enthusiasm among devotees, to overt hostility among determined protestors, to benign indifference in a broad swath of secular society. Of course, the pope always evokes a range of opinions, but they’re rarely on full public view as they are here.
A fourth feature of the Pope’s whole approach might very well be the main point of his address at St Mary’s: the link between happiness and holiness; and the path to the latter is the path to the former.