Irish Catholic hierarchy travel to beatification Mass in UK

Members of the Irish Catholic hierarchy have travelled to Birmingham, for the religious highlight of the Pope's state visit to Britain.

Members of the Irish Catholic hierarchy have travelled to Birmingham, for the religious highlight of the Pope's state visit to Britain.

Pope Benedict will preside at the Beatification Mass of Cardinal John Henry Newman, the 19th Century English scholar who founded a Catholic University in Dublin in 1852, which would later become UCD.

The Pope spent the night in London before travelling to Birmingham's Cofton Park for the beatification ceremony.

Cardinal Sean Brady, Archbishop Diarmuid Marin, and Bishops Philip Boyce, John McAreavey and Noel Traynor will be in attendance for the Pope's visit.

Cardinal Newman is being beatified, after Pope Benedict recognised the healing of a man in 2001 from a debilitating spinal condition as a miracle attributed to him.

The Pope leaves Britain tonight, having laid down markers on a number of key issues such as secularism, and having again apologised for what he said was the "unspeakable wrong" of clerical child sex abuse.

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