Quote from: vallankumous on December 20, 2017, 01:06:51 PMQuote from: Gabriel_Hurl on December 19, 2017, 06:03:19 AM
http://www.goqradio.com/news/q-radio-local-news/exclusive-plans-revealed-for-joint-northern-ireland-visit-by-the-pope-and-the-queen/QuoteQ Radio understands that the Pope and the Queen will visit Northern Ireland jointly next summer.
Pope Francis, who's 80, is already scheduled to visit the Republic in 2018 for the World Meeting of Families.
Today we can reveal that not only will the Head of the Catholic church travel north of the border but he will be joined by the supreme governor of the Church of England who turns 92 in April.
It will be a deeply symbolic and powerful moment - The Pope and the Queen appearing side by side before a divided society.
Last year the then Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness revealed that the 80 year old Pontiff WOULD cross the border.
At the time - the then First Minister, Arlene Foster, said she would meet him.
Q Radio sources have revealed that plans for the joint visit are being worked on.
The location is being kept under wraps - it may be Armagh or Belfast- but it certainly will be in Northern Ireland.
Meanwhile,
The Archbishop of Armagh, the Most Reverend Richard Clarke, says a joint visit by the Pope and the Queen to Northern Ireland would be "remarkable and wonderful".
The head of the Anglican communion in Ireland was responding to a Q Radio news report that plans are being drawn up for such a visit next August.
The Queen of England does not do joint appearances, she has no equal.
She may not do joint appearances, but she fairly snorts up the ould coke, through her own rolled-up currency too.