Pope Meeting for Airport Chaplain

Monday June 29

A Church of Scotland Deacon had an audience with the Pope after being invited to speak in a meeting of civil aviation chaplains at the Vatican.

Lewis Rose, who is President of the International Association of Civil Aviation Chaplains (IACIC), had been invited to address the World Seminar of Catholic Civil Aviation Chaplains and Chaplaincy Members, from June 10-13.

Part of the seminar was a private audience with Pope Francis. Lewis said: "I found the audience an exciting and a very humbling experience, as Pope Francis is a very humble man and a man of the people. He had a word for every one of the 94 delegates."

Lewis is Chaplain at Aberdeen Airport, and a former organiser of Workplace Chaplaincy. He has been president of IACIC for nearly two years.

The seminar gathered 94 Catholic Chaplains and chaplaincy members from 36 international airports in 24 countries. The Pope told them that the airport chaplaincy is called to be a place of unity in diversity: "The airport is cosmopolitan, multi-ethnic and multi-religious, and you, chaplains and chaplaincy members, are immersed in the life of this unique community”.

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