And did those feet?

It seems as though Pope Benedict XVI will not be beatifying John Henry Newman at Coventry Airport in September after all. Not, apparently, for reasons of cost but rather because a smaller location more closely associated with the life of the Venerable Newman has been chosen instead.

I'm not surprised. While the airport undoubtedly has good transport links and was visited by John Paul II back in 1982 — an event which gridlocked the south of the city — it hardly gives the impression of being a deeply spiritual of location...