The Queen with Benedict XVI in Edinburgh (PA)
From The Catholic Herald (UK)
The Queen will visit Pope Francis at
the Vatican on April 3, Buckingham Palace has confirmed. The Queen will
be accompanied by Prince Philip and the Royal visit will be her first
overseas trip for three years.
The Queen will visit with the Pope at the Vatican after meeting the
Italian President, Giorgio Napolitano, at the presidential palace in
Rome.
According to The Daily Mail, the Pontiff will break with tradition by
welcoming the Queen to the Domus Sanctæ Marthæ, the boarding house
where he resides, rather than the Papal state apartments inside the
Apostolic Palace.
In 1982 the Queen became the first British monarch to welcome a
reigning Pope to Great Britain when she met Blessed John Paul II at
Buckingham Palace.
Benedict XVI was the first Pontiff to receive a full state welcome to
the UK for his 2010 visit, with the Queen meeting him in Edinburgh
during the trip.
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