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The [[National Secular Society]] is organising a campaign of protests against the visit.<ref>http://www.protest-the-pope.org.uk/</ref> The Roman Catholic [[pressure group]] "Catholic Women's Ordination" is arranging for London buses to carry advertisements encouraging the Pope to "Ordain Women Now"<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/22/london-bus-female-ordination-pope | location=London | work=The Guardian | title=London buses to carry female ordination advert during pope's visit | first=Riazat | last=Butt | date=July 22, 2010}}</ref> and is also planning further unspecified lobbying action.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.catholic-womens-ordination.org.uk/news.htm#Pope |title=Local Groups |publisher=Catholic-womens-ordination.org.uk |date= |accessdate=2010-09-17}}</ref> [[The Daily Telegraph|''Telegraph'']] writer Damian Thompson warned of likely further attempts to "smear" the Pope in the run up to the visit.<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100045929/the-pope-the-jews-and-westminster-hall-another-grubby-attempt-to-smear-benedict-xvi/ | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | title=The Pope, the Jews and Westminster Hall: another grubby attempt to smear Benedict XVI | date=July 3, 2010}}</ref> and in an editorial the paper warned that "any attempts to humiliate the Pontiff during his visit would damage Britain".<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/7931295/The-success-of-the-Popes-visit-matters-to-all-of-us.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | title=The success of the Pope's visit matters to all of us | date=August 6, 2010}}</ref> Plans by [[BBC]] staff to black out live coverage of the visit are said to be related to internal disputes within the BBC;<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/08/01/bbc-staff-plan-blackout-on-pope-s-visit-over-pension-cuts-115875-22455783/ |title=BBC staff plan blackout on Pope's visit over pension cuts |publisher=mirror.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2010-09-17}}</ref> Trade union plans for industrial action in Scotland threaten to create difficulties for the visit there.<ref>[http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hB95BkxM_fycPq90mYIVaWGdn86Q ]{{Dead link|date=September 2010}}</ref>
The [[National Secular Society]] is organising a campaign of protests against the visit.<ref>http://www.protest-the-pope.org.uk/</ref> The Roman Catholic [[pressure group]] "Catholic Women's Ordination" is arranging for London buses to carry advertisements encouraging the Pope to "Ordain Women Now"<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/22/london-bus-female-ordination-pope | location=London | work=The Guardian | title=London buses to carry female ordination advert during pope's visit | first=Riazat | last=Butt | date=July 22, 2010}}</ref> and is also planning further unspecified lobbying action.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.catholic-womens-ordination.org.uk/news.htm#Pope |title=Local Groups |publisher=Catholic-womens-ordination.org.uk |date= |accessdate=2010-09-17}}</ref> [[The Daily Telegraph|''Telegraph'']] writer Damian Thompson warned of likely further attempts to "smear" the Pope in the run up to the visit.<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100045929/the-pope-the-jews-and-westminster-hall-another-grubby-attempt-to-smear-benedict-xvi/ | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | title=The Pope, the Jews and Westminster Hall: another grubby attempt to smear Benedict XVI | date=July 3, 2010}}</ref> and in an editorial the paper warned that "any attempts to humiliate the Pontiff during his visit would damage Britain".<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/7931295/The-success-of-the-Popes-visit-matters-to-all-of-us.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | title=The success of the Pope's visit matters to all of us | date=August 6, 2010}}</ref> Plans by [[BBC]] staff to black out live coverage of the visit are said to be related to internal disputes within the BBC;<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/08/01/bbc-staff-plan-blackout-on-pope-s-visit-over-pension-cuts-115875-22455783/ |title=BBC staff plan blackout on Pope's visit over pension cuts |publisher=mirror.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2010-09-17}}</ref> Trade union plans for industrial action in Scotland threaten to create difficulties for the visit there.<ref>[http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hB95BkxM_fycPq90mYIVaWGdn86Q ]{{Dead link|date=September 2010}}</ref>


[[Richard Dawkins]] supported a call for the Pope's arrest for "crimes against humanity", an idea first proposed by [[Christopher Hitchens]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://richarddawkins.net/videos/5434-christopher-hitchens-arrest-the-pope | title=Christopher Hitchens: Arrest The Pope!}}</ref> and described by a former editor of the ''[[Catholic Herald]]'' as "lunatic",<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8614232.stm | work=BBC News | title=Dawkins backs plan to arrest Pope | date=April 13, 2010}}</ref> and human rights lawyer [[Geoffrey Robertson]] was reported to be looking at options to [[Geoffrey_Robertson#Putting_Pope_Benedict_XVI_on_trial|charge the Pope]] over his alleged cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/apr/13/pope-prosecution-dawkins The pope should stand trial]</ref> In July 2010 the UK government announced plans to change the law on universal jurisdiction to prevent the issue of an arrest warrant.<ref>[http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/295022 UK government acts to prevent arrest of Pope]</ref> Attempts to make a citizen's arrest on the Pope were abandoned by British [[philosopher]] [[Anthony Grayling]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,717428,00.html |title=British Philosopher Anthony Grayling: 'The Chances of Getting the Pope Arrested Are Quite Slim' - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International |publisher=Spiegel.de |date=2010-03-30 |accessdate=2010-09-17}}</ref> and [[Peter Tatchell]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/peter-tatchell-scraps-idea-of-making-citizens-arrest-on-the-pope-2074273.html |title=Peter Tatchell scraps idea of making citizen's arrest on the Pope - Home News, UK |publisher=The Independent |date= |accessdate=2010-09-17}}</ref>
[[Richard Dawkins]] supported a call for the Pope's arrest for "crimes against humanity", an idea first proposed by [[Christopher Hitchens]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://richarddawkins.net/videos/5434-christopher-hitchens-arrest-the-pope | title=Christopher Hitchens: Arrest The Pope!}}</ref> and described by a former editor of the ''[[Catholic Herald]]'' as "lunatic",<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8614232.stm | work=BBC News | title=Dawkins backs plan to arrest Pope | date=April 13, 2010}}</ref> and human rights lawyer [[Geoffrey Robertson]] was reported to be looking at options to [[Geoffrey_Robertson#Putting_Pope_Benedict_XVI_on_trial|charge the Pope]] over his alleged cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/apr/13/pope-prosecution-dawkins The pope should stand trial]</ref> In July 2010 the UK government announced plans to change the law on universal jurisdiction to prevent the issue of an arrest warrant.<ref>[http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/295022 UK government acts to prevent arrest of Pope]</ref> Attempts to make a citizen's arrest on the Pope were abandoned by [[Peter Tatchell]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/peter-tatchell-scraps-idea-of-making-citizens-arrest-on-the-pope-2074273.html |title=Peter Tatchell scraps idea of making citizen's arrest on the Pope - Home News, UK |publisher=The Independent |date= |accessdate=2010-09-17}}</ref>


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Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United Kingdom in 2010 is the first state visit by a pope to the United Kingdom (in 1982, Pope John Paul II made a pastoral visit to Great Britain). Pope Benedict arrived in the UK on 16 September 2010. The visit was in response to an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II, with the beatification of Cardinal Newman as a "pastoral highlight".[1]

The pope was received in Edinburgh by Elizabeth II. His visit included meetings with the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, and is scheduled to include meetings with the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and the Prime Minister David Cameron and leaders of the other main political parties.

The visit comes at a time when incidents of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests have received prominent media attention: during the visit, Pope Benedict is expected to meet abuse victims.[citation needed]

The visit has been criticised on grounds of cost, and because of the church's policies on ordination of women, abortion, homosexuality, contraception and AIDS; on the eve of the visit, a letter by 50 public figures, including Stephen Fry and Richard Dawkins, argued that for these reasons the pope should not be granted the honour of a state visit.[2]

In a speech in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, on the first day of his visit, Pope Benedict caused controversy with his remarks associating atheism with the absence of virtue in society, and the latter with the road to Nazism.[3][4][5][6]

Invitation

An invitation to visit the UK was extended to Pope Benedict XVI by then Prime Minister Gordon Brown in February 2009. According to the Daily Telegraph the invitation may have been made for political reasons, in order to garner support amongst the Scottish Catholic community away from the Scottish National Party in favour of the Labour Party.[7]

The Pope's visit featured in the debates between party leaders in April 2010, prior to the 2010 United Kingdom General Election, where all three party leaders expressed support for the visit, while expressing disagreement with some of the Pope's views.[8]

Planning

Anjoum Noorani of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office was originally a key contact between the UK and the papal visit team. However, he was suspended from overseas postings and given a final warning, to last for five years, after approving the sending of a memo written by Steven Mulvain, a 23-year-old Oxford graduate, mocking the visit.[9] Subsequently the UK appointed liberal Catholic[10] Lord Patten to get the visit back on track following a series of setbacks.[11]

Tour

Scotland

Pope Benedict XVI began his official visit in Scotland at Edinburgh Airport, where he was greeted by Prince Philip and the Archbishops of Westminster and St Andrews and Edinburgh. He then met the Queen for the first time at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, the Queen's official residence in Scotland. This was the first time that the Queen has officially received a head of state in Scotland. After a reception in the gardens of the Palace he travelled through the streets of Edinburgh, preceded by a parade of school children and figures from Scotland's Christian history in honour of St Ninian of Galloway, who brought Christianity to Scotland from Rome in the fifth century. After the parade, which was attended by around 125,000 people, the Pope had lunch with Cardinal O'Brien at his home before travelling by car to Glasgow to celebrate Mass for the Feast of St Ninian in Bellahouston Park,[12] where Susan Boyle and Pop Idol winner Michelle McManus performed before the start of the mass.[13]

Parishes were charged a fee of £20 per attendee,.[14] Earlier assurances were that no individual charge would be made,[15] but many parishes chose to directly apply the cost to individual pilgrims rather than to meet the cost through general funds and fundraising.[citation needed] In early August, after the deadline for attendance to be notified, returns suggested that ticket take-up was below expectations and that attendance would fall short of the 100,000 target.[14] By mid-August it was revealed that "thousands of tickets" were being returned to organisers.[16], but the official attendance reached 68,753.

England

On the second day of his tour of the United Kingdom, the Pope met the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace to address educators and students at St Mary's University College, Twickenham and to make an address to MPs and peers from the spot in Westminster Hall where saint Thomas More was sentenced to death in 1535 for high treason for refusing to acknowledge the validity of the Act of Succession. In the evening there is to be an ecumenical celebration of evening prayer at Westminster Abbey with representatives from all the main Christian churches including the Greek Orthodox, Coptic and Free Churches. The official attendance for the address to St Mary's University College, Twickenham was 2,919.

Subsequent events

Stage being prepared for ceremony in Cofton Park

The Pope will preside over the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman, with 65,000[17] pilgrims expected at the 80,000 capacity Cofton Park in Longbridge, Birmingham, on Sunday, 19 September.[18] The Pope is considering a meeting with victims of sexual abuse by priests.[19] The Pope will visit the Birmingham Oratory, founded by Newman and currently under investigation by the Vatican: there is controversy and mystery over this visit as three priests from the Oratory have been sent away to separate locations, apparently to ensure they are not present for the Pope's visit.[20] The Papal visit official itinerary contains three to four hours each day with no formal events planned: this allows time for a private meeting with victims of clerical abuse[21] and also for a daily nap.[22] In a perceived snub to British Airways the Pope will fly home on a chartered Italian state airline Airbus A320.[23] In conjunction with the visit, plans are being made for a display of Vatican tapestries at the Royal Academy.[24]

Alleged assassination plot

On September 17, 2010, and acting upon received information, the Metropolitan Police arrested five street cleaners under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 in a pre-dawn raid at a London cleaning depot, in a suspected terrorist plot against the Pope on the second day of his state visit. A sixth person was arrested later in the day at his home "on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism".[25] The men, aged between 26 and 50, had been working as street cleaners for contractors Veolia Environnement, on behalf of Westminster City Council and were based at the Chiltern Street depot in Marylebone.

The suspects were being questioned at an unidentified London police station. The police did not uncover any hazardous items during an initial search of the business premises and other properties.[26]

According to police some of the suspects were thought to be immigrants to Britain, from a variety of nations including a number from Algeria.[27]

The Vatican said the Pope was calm despite the arrests and no changes were planned to his schedule.

Cost controversy

There are many controversies about the cost of the visit. The beatification of Cardinal Newman was originally planned for Coventry Airport with a congregation of 200,000 but was scaled down amidst concerns over costs: the visit is to cost the UK's Roman Catholics between £7 million[19] and £14 million.[28] £5 million had been raised by early July 2010;[7] however, fundraising stalled at this point and by mid-August the church was facing a £2.6 million shortfall.[29] The United Kingdom government contribution is set to rise by £4 million to at least an estimated £19 million,[7] with officials suggesting costs are "out of control" and that the final bill could be over £20 million.[30] Shortly before the visit a survey revealed that three out of four people in the UK were opposed to any government money being spent on the visit.[31] However, the Archbishop of Westminster insisted that it was right for the government to pay as it is an official State Visit.[32] The visit is to cost Edinburgh City council £400,000.[33] There is also concern among the UK's Roman Catholics that the visit has created hostility towards the Church and the Pope.[34]

Response

Support

A petition has been set up, endorsing the support of the Papal visit to the United Kingdom, stating that "we, the undersigned, welcome, with all our hearts and souls, the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the United Kingdom, for the liberty and well-being of the church in our country and most especially for the spiritual benefits and pastoral care to be offered to all, whatever their beliefs."[35]

The visit has seen some support by Muslims. The President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK stated that "Religious leaders have a pivotal role to play in promoting peace and serving humanity. Indeed religions have far more commonalities than differences and we welcome moves that will help forge unity and foster greater understanding."[36]

Opposition

Further information: Criticism of the Catholic Church

The visit is opposed by a wide range of people and organisations including some traditionalist Catholics, Protestants, gay and secular groups citing issues ranging from religious concerns to the Pope's opposition to abortion, gay rights, gender equality and the use of condoms.[31][37] Former DUP leader Ian Paisley called the visit a "mistake",[38] and the principal of Scotland's Free Church Training College said the visit airbrushed the Protestant Reformation out of history and dishonoured reformer and nationalist John Knox.[39]

The National Secular Society is organising a campaign of protests against the visit.[40] The Roman Catholic pressure group "Catholic Women's Ordination" is arranging for London buses to carry advertisements encouraging the Pope to "Ordain Women Now"[41] and is also planning further unspecified lobbying action.[42] Telegraph writer Damian Thompson warned of likely further attempts to "smear" the Pope in the run up to the visit.[43] and in an editorial the paper warned that "any attempts to humiliate the Pontiff during his visit would damage Britain".[44] Plans by BBC staff to black out live coverage of the visit are said to be related to internal disputes within the BBC;[45] Trade union plans for industrial action in Scotland threaten to create difficulties for the visit there.[46]

Richard Dawkins supported a call for the Pope's arrest for "crimes against humanity", an idea first proposed by Christopher Hitchens[47] and described by a former editor of the Catholic Herald as "lunatic",[48] and human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson was reported to be looking at options to charge the Pope over his alleged cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.[49] In July 2010 the UK government announced plans to change the law on universal jurisdiction to prevent the issue of an arrest warrant.[50] Attempts to make a citizen's arrest on the Pope were abandoned by Peter Tatchell.[51]

Media coverage

The BBC are to mark the visit with documentaries including:[52][53]

See also

References

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