The Church in Scotland today - Cardinal Keith Patrick O'Brien
Pope Benedict arrives in the UK on Thursday September 16th and his first
stop is Scotland where he will be received by Queen Elizabeth II, members of the Royal
Family and people representing British society in the Palace of Holyrood House in
Edinburgh.
Having met the Queen, the Pope will travel to Glasgow where he will
celebrate an open-air Mass at Bellahouston Park in the evening and then he will fly
from Glasgow to London.
There are an estimated 850 thousand Catholics living
in Scotland, representing 16 percent of the total population, spread across eight
diocese, two of which (Glasgow and St. Andrews and Edinburgh) are Archdiocese.
Cardinal
Keith Patrick O’Brien, is Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh. He told us more
about the kind of Church Pope Benedict XVI will find when he touches down on Scottish
soil this September. Hear more: