As the Holy Father woke up on the morning after his return to Castel Gandolfo, volunteers manning the phones at the Catholic Enquiry Office in London were beginning to cope with hundreds of calls asking about the Catholic faith. Among those phoning was a Sikh woman, who wanted to know how she could convert.
Already, on the Pope's final afternoon in Britain, Cardinal Keith O’Brien had told him that this would be the effect: “Be assured, Holy Father,” he said at Oscott, “that we are bouncing back.”
