POPE: Did he insult the British?

I just have one more comment on the pope’s visit to the UK.

I spoke before about the pope insulting Britain with some of his remarks. I forgot to mention the biggest insult was his original purpose for visiting the UK; to beatifie or move towards sainthood, Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801-1890).

Newman was an Anglican priest / bishop who converted to Catholicism. Last year, Pope Benedict made public an invitation to Anglican clerics to come join the Catholic Church and retain some of their Anglican practices. He was doing this when the Anglicans decided to allow gays to become bishops; not all Anglicans were in favor of the move and it is still a controversial decision which may eventually split the Anglican Church.

To me the beatification of Newman and his fishing for Anglican converts while visiting Anglican England is offensive, to say the least. But the Brits were polite even when the pope was not!

King Henry VIII would have known what to do...

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