{"id":256,"date":"2010-09-16T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/09\/popewatch-anger-apathy-excitement-await-benedict-in-united-kingdom.html"},"modified":"2010-09-16T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T08:00:00","slug":"popewatch-anger-apathy-excitement-await-benedict-in-united-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/09\/popewatch-anger-apathy-excitement-await-benedict-in-united-kingdom.html","title":{"rendered":"PopeWatch: Anger, Apathy, Excitement Await Benedict in United Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict&#8217;s four-day visit to England and Scotland kicked off today, and with the exception of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS351US351&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=excited+catholics+england#sclient=psy&amp;hl=en&amp;rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS351US351&amp;tbs=nws%3A1&amp;q=catholics+england+scotladn+pope+excited&amp;aq=f&amp;aqi=&amp;aql=&amp;oq=&amp;gs_rfai=&amp;pbx=1&amp;fp=4cc5dfb45bcedbaf\">island&#8217;s excited Catholics<\/a>&nbsp;and a&nbsp;warm welcome from&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/uk-prime-minister-offers-pope-benedict-very-warm-welcome\/\">British Prime Minister David Cameron<\/a>&nbsp;and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/2010\/09\/16\/text-excerpts-from-greeting-speeches-by-pope-and-queen-in-edinburgh\/\">Queen Elizabeth<\/a>, public sentiment apparently ranges from <a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/09\/15\/anger-awaits-pope-on-landmark-uk-visit\/\">angry <\/a>to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/2010\/09\/14\/seats-still-going-for-popes-visit-to-britain-this-week\/\">apathetic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, not so easy to boil this down to a punchy headline! It gets even more complicated when you go beyond the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/17\/world\/europe\/17pope.html?_r=1&amp;hp\">clergy abuse <\/a>protests, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/2010\/09\/15\/feisty-debates-between-catholics-and-secularists-before-pope-visit-to-britain\/\">grumpy secularists&nbsp;<\/a>and atheist publicity stunts, into the controversies over the cost of&nbsp;the&nbsp;pope&#8217;s security requirements,&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2010\/09\/15\/popes-adviser-calls-britain-third-world-country-drops-out-of\/\">inflammatory remarks about Great Britain made by one of his advisers <\/a>and tension over the beatification of <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted2.ap.org\/txdam\/f02866e54f4149c297ea6f51ff09935f\/Article_2010-09-13-EU-Pope-Britain-Convert\/id-a53893242f324f8d98a2d8b48a4b0df7\">Church of England figure&nbsp;John Henry Newman <\/a>(making him one step away from Catholic sainthood) on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my top five sites for&nbsp;complete coverage of the expectations and anxieties over this papal visit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/headlines\/europe\/\">Catholic News Agency: Europe news<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/channel\/vatican\">National Catholic Reporter: Vatican news<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/\">Reuters: FaithWorld<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/\">Whispers in the Loggia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk\/\">BBC News: UK<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">BONUS: You can also watch the visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepapalvisit.org.uk\/The-Visit-Live\">webcast live<\/a> &#8212; don&#8217;t you just love technology?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Check back for updates and share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict&#8217;s four-day visit to England and Scotland kicked off today, and with the exception of the island&#8217;s excited Catholics&nbsp;and a&nbsp;warm welcome from&nbsp;British Prime Minister David Cameron&nbsp;and Queen Elizabeth, public sentiment apparently ranges from angry to apathetic. In other words, not so easy to boil this down to a punchy headline! It gets even more&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>PopeWatch: Anger, Apathy, Excitement Await Benedict in United Kingdom - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/09\/popewatch-anger-apathy-excitement-await-benedict-in-united-kingdom.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PopeWatch: Anger, Apathy, Excitement Await Benedict in United Kingdom - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pope Benedict&#8217;s four-day visit to England and Scotland kicked off today, and with the exception of the island&#8217;s excited Catholics&nbsp;and a&nbsp;warm welcome from&nbsp;British Prime Minister David Cameron&nbsp;and Queen Elizabeth, public sentiment apparently ranges from angry to apathetic. 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