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The Independentcalls Pope Benedict’s visit to Britain a Mission Improbable. Even without the gaffe by Cardinal Kasper, who compared touching down in multicultural London to arriving in a "third world country", the paper says the Pope had his work cut out for him to persuade the British to eschew materialism for the spiritual life. Everything Benedict stands for rubs Middle England up the wrong way, says commentator Mary Dejevsky. He awakes two deep suspicions "in the British psyche: one of Protestant anti-Papism, the other dislike and suspicion of all things German... that every German has an inner Hitler."
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