Papal envoy to UK says pope visit likely

A visit to the United Kingdom by Pope Leo XIV in the not-so-distant future is likely, the Vatican's envoy to Britain said Tuesday. The pope's representative in Great Britain, Nuncio Archbishop Miguel Maury Buendía, said he hopes that Leo will visit England and "awaken the conscience of the West." A papal visit to England is "probable, desirable, and I would even say inevitable," Buendía, the apostolic nuncio to Great Britain since 2023, told EWTN. A visit to Great Britain is "probable, because King Charles III made a state visit to the Vatican last year, and it is logical that the United Kingdom now invites Pope Leo XIV to return the visit," he added. The last pope to make an official visit to the United Kingdom was Benedict XVI in 2010. Archbishop Maury said that, as an English-speaking p