During one of his more unusual interviews, given to a comedian at a football ground on Bonfire Night, the Archbishop of Canterbury was asked what his favourite firework was. Scarcely pausing for breath, he replied: "I think the wrong answer to that would be 'a Roman Candle.'"
Benedict XVI's full state visit to Britain in September was the first by any pope for 400 years.He was given the warmest of welcomes from the Queen, the Prime Minister, hundreds of thousands who lined the streets, and leaders of all the major faiths, including Dr William. the Roman Catholic Church was once again pitted against the Church of England in what some commentators saw as the greatest struggle for the souls of Anglicans since the Reformation.
October saw the first anniversary of Benedict XVI's historic - and hugely contentious - offer to accommodate conservative Anglicans who could not accept the ministry of women bishops.
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