Aide’s Third World remarks fuel anger over papal visit

TENSIONS surrounding the Pope’s visit to Scotland and England intensified last night as one of his key advisers compared Britain to the Third World.

Cardinal Walter Kasper pulled out of the papal tour which begins in Edinburgh today as hisremarks fuelled the surge of controversy engulfing the visit.

The decision of Irish primate Seán Brady to fly to Scotland for the Papal events is also expected to heighten anger from clerical child abuse survivors’ groups who plan to protest.