POPE BENEDICT XVI AND THE UNITED KINGDOM
Free Presbyterian Publications
108 pages. £5.00
ISBN 978-0-902506-66-4
This publication has been timed to coincide with Pope Benedict XVI’s state visit (September 16-19). During his time in the UK, he will meet the Queen at Holyrood Palace, Scotland and will address a gathering of both Houses of Parliament. Joseph Ratzinger will also beatify Cardinal Newman, the first Englishman to be made a ‘saint’ since the Reformation.
The impending visit has already caused some controversy, not least due to Ratzinger’s failure to deal with the problem of child abuse in the Roman Catholic Church. Before becoming pope, he was Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, Rome’s disciplinary body (formerly called The Inquisition). It is alleged that, as Prefect, he knew what was going on, but did little to prevent children being abused by paedophile priests. Evangelicals might feel a little unhappy concerning the high honours that will be accorded to such a man. But it seems that by and large we have given up the fight when it comes to the controversy with Rome. We appear to have forgotten what the Reformation was all about. The aim of this book is to set out the influence of Protestantism on our national life and expose Roman Catholic false teachings.
