When Ian Paisley Senior was an MEP, he famously berated Pope John Paul II as the "anti-christ". No such drama today when Shaun Woodward met The Secretary of State and the Pope discussed the dissident murders in March, and Mr Woodward echoed Gordon Brown's recent invitation to Pope Benedict to visit the UK, expressing the hope that he would be able to come to Northern Ireland as part of the visit.
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