Visible Expression

The ecclesial community, while always having a universal dimension, finds its most immediate and visible expression in the parish. It is there that the Church is seen locally. In a certain sense it is...

"... the Church living in the midst of the homes of her sons and daughters..."

Pope John Paul II
Christifideles Laici [27]

Thursday 16 September 2010

Welcome Papa Benedict XVI


Pope Benedict XVI thanks HRH Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip for their kind welcome to the United Kingdom. The Pope spoke briefly at Holy Rood House before being taken in his Pope Mobile through the streets of Edinburgh, which were lined with hundreds of people welcoming him to Scotland.