Pope Benedict XVI and Dr Rowan Williams, then Archbishop of Canterbury, embrace during Evening Prayer at Westminster Abbey on 17 September, 2010, in the course of the Papal Visit to the UK.
I don’t know that I ever met a practising Catholic before I went to university. A friend at school had an Irish surname and his parents, I learned, went to Mass. But growing up in an Anglican family and attending Anglican schools, my knowledge of Catholicism before then was nil. A single experience came during a trip to Rome. We were there for a few days, and a handful of us decided to try to see the Pope.
