The Queen’s visit to Pope Francis this week forms part of a wider picture of growing friendship between the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church. It also, says the dean of Westminster, highlights the Queen’s own deep Christian faith Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to Pope Francis is part of a story of continuing engagement between kings and queens of the United Kingdom and the Holy See that began soon after the 1829 Catholic Emancipation Act. Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman might have put developing relations at risk when, before his return to England as Archbishop of Westminster in October 1850, he issued a letter from the Flaminian Gate of Rome, in which he claimed that Catholic England had been “restored to its orbit in the ecclesiastical firmament” and t