Sentences with phrase «papal state visit»

And of course it was on her invitation that the Holy Father graced the United Kingdom with the first papal State Visit in our history.

A huge security operation is being mounted to protect the pontiff during his four - day tour - the first papal state visit to Britain - bumping estimated costs beyond # 20 million ($ 31 million), with over half coming from government funds.

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In 1979, in his first papal visit to the United States, John Paul II raised eyebrows when he suggested that the agenda for ecumenical dialogue should include moral teaching.

He took part in a panel sponsored by the Knights of Columbus on the impending papal visit to the United States.

The Papal visit of 2010 somehow began in the wrong way - it was unofficially announced by the then Prime Minister in what appeared to be an attempt to improve his own status on the international stage: he let it be known that an invitation had been issued and that this would be a state visit.