Anglican brace for pope's UK visit

From England-

This is the week of the much anticipated and controversial visit by Pope Benedict XVI. He will meet with both the head of the Church of England, Queen Elizabeth, and the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The reason for the visit is the beatification (a step toward sainthood) of Cardinal John Henry Newman, a 19th Century Anglican convert to the Roman Catholic Church.

To the Anglo-Catholics, Newman connects both churches. The Rev. William Franklin, an Anglican Newman Scholar told the AP, "[Newman] seems to symbolize the view that the ecumenical journey leads Anglicans ultimately back to the Roman Catholic Church."

The Vatican hopes Anglicans will see Newman as a bridge figure too, but the Rev. Ephraim Radner, a professor of historical theology at Wycliffe College, an Anglican theological school at the University of Toronto thinks otherwise, "There are very sad things about what happened, that he himself and others acknowledge: the great parting of friends — it's something that's true today. He stands as a sign of what's broken of a bridge, it seems to me."

More here with the schedule-

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