Bishop in cash plea to ensure mass attendance
A BISHOP has urged parishes to spread the cost of sending people to the public mass planned for the Pope's visit to Glasgow.
Pope Benedict XVI is due to take mass at Bellahouston Park in September and Rt Rev Philip Tartaglia, has written to all priests in his diocese, urging them to spread the cost across all parishioners to ensure that "all those who wish to attend can do so regardless of their means".
Parishes have been urged to try to raise the equivalent of 20 per person who wants to attend.
Bishop Tartaglia wrote: ""A principle of the organisation was that costs should be shared evenly throughout Scotland to make it feasible for people to come from all parts.
"This act of solidarity with our Catholic brothers and sisters from throughout the country does not seem out of place for a once-in-a-generation mass with the Holy Father on Scottish soil."
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