Madam, – It appears that those opposing Pope Benedict’s visit to Britain come straight from central casting of rent-a-bigot.
Among Pope Benedict’s admirers on the Continent are the distinguished Italian senator Marcello Pera and the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas. Both, incidentally, are atheists. What must they think of the ignorant British and Irish mob irrationally raging against the pope? – Yours, etc,