The Pope's visit to Scotland could be disrupted by a day of strikes by council workers in a dispute over pay and conditions, reports the Bearsden Herald. Meanwhile, Edinburgh News says Benedict XVI's visit will cost the city £400,000 ($634,700).
The Pope’s offer to Anglicans is "not a bargain basement sale", the Bishop of Ebbsfleet, the Rt Rev Andrew Burnham, has said in his latest pastoral letter.
Inside the Vatican reports that Joseph Ratzinger had hoped to become a librarian rather than pope.
