Pope's visit to UK on schedule despite memo, says Vatican
SENIOR Vatican spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi yesterday dismissed British media speculation that Pope Benedict’s September official visit to the UK might be cancelled because of last weekend’s embarrassing diplomatic incident involving a leaked Foreign Office memo.
He told The Irish Timesthat such reports were “completely without foundation”. “I don’t know how people imagined this. No one [in the Vatican] has ever had even a minimum of doubt about the visit”, Fr Lombardi added.