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Paul Suart B'ham Post 21 Sep 10
The impact of Pope Benedict’s visit to Birmingham was “immeasurable,” the city’s chamber of commerce said.
While it is believed to have brought around £12.5 million into the city, the benefits extended to far more than “pounds and pence” it added.
In the region of 60,000 people flocked to Cofton Park for the Beatification Mass on Sunday…
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BBC News 19 Sep 10
Thousands of people have witnessed the Pope’s beatification of 19th Century theologian Cardinal John Henry Newman, as his UK state visit draws to a close.
The pontiff told more than 50,000 people at a Mass in Birmingham’s Cofton Park that they were celebrating the cardinal’s “outstanding holiness”…
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BBC News 17 Sep 10
5 arrested in Pope assassination plot
Former Birmingham MP Clare Short has claimed embarrassment about the child abuse scandals within the Roman Catholic Church could keep people away from Sunday’s Mass.
Pope Benedict XVI will lead Mass in Cofton Park, Birmingham, where he will beatify Cardinal Newman as the culmination of his four-day UK state visit…
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The Plastic Hippo 17 Sep 10
Twitter made its breakthrough into the national consciousness when it was revealed that Stephen Fry was being “followed” by almost all of the inhabitants of heaven and earth. Having become all but synonymous with the 140 character bon mot, the name of our national treasure is inveriably evoked when the printed media cover a story that they have gleaned from Twitter. But, that pillar of respectable journalism and voice of the the people, the Daily Mail, has taken umbridge at some of Mr Fry’s activities.
Stephen and 54 of his prominent chums signed a letter to the Guardian questioning the propriety of “honouring” the Holy Father, Bishop of Rome, Sovereign of the Vatican City State and God`s true representative on Earth with a state visit given the somewhat chequered reputation of the Catholic Church.
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B'ham Mail 16 Sep 10
A replica cross found as part of the Staffordshire Hoard is to be given to the Pope as a gift from the people of Birmingham.
Craftsmen and women in the Jewellery Quarter have been working round the clock to recreate a folded cross which was thought to have been deliberately bent in two to fit inside the seventh century hoard…
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BBC News 16 Sep 10
Pope arrives in Scotland
20,000 expected to line B'ham street for Pope
The deacon whose recovery from a spinal disorder paved the way for Cardinal John Henry Newman’s beatification is to fly to Britain for the Pope’s visit.
Jack Sullivan, of the archdiocese of Boston, Massachusetts, got better after praying to the 19th Century cardinal – with the Vatican ruling it a miracle…
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Gavin Drake's weblog 16 Sep 10
5 reasons to oppose the Pope’s visit
The Liberal Elite are delighted to announce the completion of a major re-branding exercise.
From today the loose coalition which represents a few thousand people across the UK and previously known as “The Liberal Elite” should now be called “The Bigoted Elite” … To mark the re-branding exercise, a group of sleepers wrote a letter to a newspaper, in which they said:
“There are five reasons why we must oppose the Pope’s visit…
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Guardian 15 Sep 10
Stephen Fry, Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman and Richard Dawkins are among more than 50 public figures who have signed a letter to the Guardian arguing that the pope should not be given the “honour” of a UK state visit.
The signatories, also including Ken Follett, Stewart Lee and Sir Jonathan Miller, call for “Pope Ratzinger” to be stripped of the right because of the Vatican’s record on gay rights, abortion and birth control.
Benedict XVI begins the first-ever state visit by a pope to Britain tomorrow…
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Edward Chadwick B'ham Mail 28 Aug 10
Birmingham City Council chiefs say they expect 3,000 travellers to come to Birmingham during the next few weeks for Pope Benedict XVI’s visit.
They are frantically drawing up plans for huge temporary camps to house gypsy pilgrims’ caravans on disused industrial land where they can erect toilet and water facilities…
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Pink Paper 1 Apr 10
The Pope is to appear on stage at the famous London nightclub G-A-Y during his visit to Britain this autumn…