British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Italy at the weekend for a week-long holiday and meeting with the pope.
Blair and Pope Benedict XVI are expected to talk on troop withdrawals from Iraq with the new centre-left Government of Romano Prodi, and discuss the reconciliation of the Christian and Muslim religions in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001.
In addition Blair will offer a formal invitation to the pope to visit Great Britain, who has already been invited by Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the Archbishop of Westminster.
If the pope accepts, it would be his first official visit to England, The Times of London reported.
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