(24 Sep 08 - RV) The President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian
Unity, Cardinal Walter Kasper is to say the Mass of Our Lady of Walsingham today,
in connection with an historic pilgrimage of Anglican bishops and lay faithful to
the healing Shrine of Our Lady in Lourdes, France.
The Spiritual leader of
the worldwide Anglican Communion, Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury, is scheduled
to be in attendance and  preach at the International Mass at the invitation of the
Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes, Jacques Perrier.
Ahead of his departure for Lourdes,
Cardinal Kasper told us the event is significant…