Pope Benedict XVI told an assembly of schoolchildren that they should “grow in holiness”, and that they may be the saints of the future, at an event to celebrate Catholic education earlier today.
In the first public event of the UK papal visit since he arrived in England last night, the Holy Father told an excited gathering of children at St Mary’s University College in Twickenham, west London, that “they must not just be good students but good citizens and good people”.
After a positive start to the four-day papal visit yesterday, with large crowds in Edinburgh and Glasgow greeting the pontiff warmly, Benedict arrived in London last night and stayed at the Apostolic Nunciature residence in Wimbledon, south-west London before celebrating a private mass.
