http://www.diaconate.org.uk/2010/03/papal-visit-2010/ Permanent Deacons in the UK Sun, 30 Jan 2011 21:52:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.diaconate.org.uk/2010/03/papal-visit-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-282 Frances Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:42:19 +0000 http://www.diaconate.org.uk/?p=890#comment-282 I am very disappointed to learn that Pope Benedict will not be visiting the North-East of England during his trip to the UK. Christianity first took roots in Britain in the North-East, and today is still home to a thriving Catholic community. The region's religious and cultural heritages are intertwined, and impacted on the spread of Christianity throughout the British Isles - Hilda, Oswald, Bede, and Cuthbert are some of the most well-known and influential British saints. We in the North have already suffered the ignomony of being told that we and our facilities (which included Durham Cathedral and the Lindisfarne Priory) are inadequate to maintain the Lindisfarne Gospels, and artefact crafted in Northumbria and appropriated by Henry VIII during the land-snatch that was the Dissolution of the Monasteries - what can we gather from this snub but that we are incapable of hosting a visit by His Holiness to the place where our faith first found expression? I am very disappointed to learn that Pope Benedict will not be visiting the North-East of England during his trip to the UK. Christianity first took roots in Britain in the North-East, and today is still home to a thriving Catholic community. The region’s religious and cultural heritages are intertwined, and impacted on the spread of Christianity throughout the British Isles – Hilda, Oswald, Bede, and Cuthbert are some of the most well-known and influential British saints.
We in the North have already suffered the ignomony of being told that we and our facilities (which included Durham Cathedral and the Lindisfarne Priory) are inadequate to maintain the Lindisfarne Gospels, and artefact crafted in Northumbria and appropriated by Henry VIII during the land-snatch that was the Dissolution of the Monasteries – what can we gather from this snub but that we are incapable of hosting a visit by His Holiness to the place where our faith first found expression?

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