Monday, September 13, 2010

Vatican is not worried by planned anti-pope protests in Britain


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Vatican is not worried by planned anti-pope protests in Britain

The Vatican is not concerned by a "hostile minority's" plans to demonstrate against Pope Benedict XVI during his three-day visit to Britain next week, the pontiff's spokesman said Friday.

"It is not surprising because these (protests) have happened before," Father Federico Lombardi said at a Vatican briefing on Benedict's Sept.  16-19 visit to England and Scotland.

"Such demonstrations have always occurred, also during other (papal) travels , Lombardi said.

In Britain, the issue of protests is "a broader one because in the United Kingdom there are atheist groups, some of them anti-papal in nature, but also this forms part of a plural society like the British one," Lombardi said.

"However the resonance given to these sentiments by the media has been greater than that given to several authoritative surveys which suggest a substantial interest among the (British) population for Benedict XVI's visit," Lombardi added.

Benedict's visit is the first papal trip to Britain since 1982, when Pope John Paul II came on a pastoral visit in the year of the Falklands conflict, during which he also visited Argentina.

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