Ireland must not waste the huge opportunity which a papal visit would present

Finally it looks like people are starting to believe that Pope Francis will visit Ireland.

In May Dublin’s Archbishop Diarmuid Martin revealed that on being invited to Dublin, the Pontiff answered, “I will come,” adding, “if I don’t come, my successor will come”, but Dublin diocesan sources maintained that while the Pope hoped to attend 2018’s World Meeting of Families, it was too early to tell if Ireland was due for her second papal visit.

Now, though, it seems that papal visit is as certain as it can be, with Taoiseach Enda Kenny describing how the Pope has confirmed that he shall visit in 2018.