Thousands of cheering Catholic schoolchildren give Pope Benedict a boisterous welcome
at St. Mary's University College at Twickenham in London . So what did these youngsters
think of the pope and his visit? Listen to the impressions, given in all their refreshing
honesty, from this group of boys from St. Ignatius College in Enfield, North London......
"...I’d
like to see him visit all over the world….
"...he’s an icon to us of our
religion and he’s God’s representative on earth ...
"...even though the pope
is not as young as many of the Catholics he doesn’t act old worldish, he acts very
modern in the way he.... "
"...what if there were a much younger pope …..he
would be able to more easily convert them to Christianity…."