Pope recorded the three-minute slot in Rome earlier today, according to the BBC
Topic: BBC
Pupil wins scouts’ top award
Stonyhurst pupil’s scout project to build a sensory maze for dogs is launched on Blue Peter
BBC receives hundreds of complaints over coverage of papal visit
The corporation is criticised for being too sympathetic and too critical. Sky, meanwhile, has only had praise
Scotland has done us all proud; suddenly the anti-Catholic campaign has lost its power
The papal chemistry is still active on British soil; now, we can relax and enjoy the visit
The BBC has done very well so far – even risking the wrath of humanists
The Independent, for a start, isn’t happy
Well done, Mark Dowd. You did the Pope justice
His documentary, Benedict: Trials of a Pope, was even-handed and sincere
The campaign against the Pope and the Church will be swept away by the visit itself
But the campaign to defend them will, I hope, endure long after the visit is over
The BBC thinks the Pope has a ‘Nazi past’
Footage of the Hitler Youth, St Peter’s and the Pope holding his head in his hands carries a subliminal message
Whatever the BBC says we ought to think, celibacy is still one of the jewels in our crown
Their latest pope-bashing operation is entirely irrelevant to a Church which thinks in centuries







The Queen may not have produced a rosary, but she did conduct herself with dignity
At 83, she has seen a great many state occasions in her lifetime