Militant Protestants protest LONDON (UPD - Roman Catholic church officials have announced Pope John Paul [I is to visit Britain in 1982 — the first reigning pontiff to travel to the country since it spht from the Vatican almost 350 years ago, but militant Protestants in Northern Ireland and Scotland immediately protested the trip. The visit is likely to take place in the summer of 1982, and although the details have not been worked out, Pope John Paul will not be visiting Ulster — scene of more than a decade of sectarian violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics. The announcement by Cardinal Basil Hume, Roman Catholic archbishop of Westminster triggered an angry response from a small but vocal group of hardline Protestants in Scotland and Northern Ireland, stirred by ancient controversies precipitated by the sphit by King Henry VIII, and the subsequent establishment of the Anglican Church as the principal church in the United Kingdom. The Rev. lan Paisley, a leading Ulster politician, said the invitation brought the Pope to Britain “by a back door, flouting the constitution and the laws of the realm.” He said the pontflf could not be received by Queen Elizabeth since her ancestor Elizabeth the First had been ex- communicated in the wake of the loth century break from Rome The Pohsh-born pontiff who visited Ireland last year. did not travel to Northern Ireland, where militant Protestants believe he should excommunicate members of the Irish Republican Army for terromst acts in the British province. Militant Scottish Protestant, Pastor Jack Glass threatened Protestants would protest “at any point where the Pope might try to enter the country (Scotland).” Archbishop Hume tried to defuse the objection at a news conference Sunday announcing the visit to Britain, where some 10 per cent of the population is Catholic, compared to two- thirds Anglican. “The Pope is coming to us as a friend. He is not coming asa thgeat,’ "Hume said. “Ywould like to think that this pastoral visit with an ecumenical dimension will contribute to the cause of unity. I am hoping and praying that the visit will be a joyful one and I would like the whole thing to be raised above the level of troversy.” The Pope is coming on a pastoral visit in response to an invitation from the Roman Catholic bishops of England and was not a a state visit, church officials stressed. _ But the Pope on his other pastoral visits abroad has met with heads of state and political leaders and it is considered hkely he will meet with Queen Elizabeth, con- Canadian combine laws weak Liberal MP says OTTAWA (UPC) - Caada's combine laws are too weak to stop the “sad and serious” monopoly trend engulfing the print media in the nations larger cities, Liberal MP Warren Alimand SAYS. 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So 9.30-45.30 fn 109 who is the titular head of the Anglican church, and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. “The Queen welcomes the visit,” a spokesman at Buckingham Palace said, adding that “naturally if the Queen is in England at the time, she will receive the Pope.” The Anglican primate, Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie sent a message to Pope John Paul welcoming the “good news” of the Pope's visit and ex- tending an invitation to visit Canterbury Cathedral — where Saint Thomas a Beckett was murdered in 1170. No Pope has ever set foot in Britain, not even the only Enghsh-born pontiff, Adrian VI, who stayed in Italy after his inauguration in 1154. In 1533, King Henry VIII cut the link that had bound the English crown to Rome since 664 A.D. when the Vatican refused to nullify his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, to allow him to marry Anne Boleyn. A15-Wednesday, September 3, 1980 - North Shore News Bodies found on French island may be Canadian PARIS (UPI) - Authorities Monday were investigating the possibility that five skeletons found buried on an island off the Brittany coast may belong to Canadian sailors drowned when their cruiser sank in the English channel just before the D- day invasion of France in 1944. The skeletons were discovered by children digging in the sand on the beach on tiny lle de Batz. The skeletons had been laid out head to foot m a row. Islanders present during the German occupation during World War JI - when the skeletons are considered likely to have been buried — said there had never been any violence on the island during the period and that no one had _= mysteriously disappeared. 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