AmP exclusive: video confirmation of Pope Benedict's miracle comment

Earlier I picked-up on a story that Amy had noted regarding an interesting comment that Pope Benedict made to English prime minister Tony Blair during their meeting.

The UK Daily Mail claimed that Pope Benedict said "Yes, yes, although it is taking some time - miracles are hard to come by in Britain" when Blair brought up the topic of Cardinal Newman's ongoing cause for canonization.

Here, via the BBC, is video of the Pope at least saying the words "It's very dificult to make miracles in Britain" to Blair at 0:42 in the video. Go ahead and listen for yourself.

Admittedly, the pope is off-camera and the statement is probably included as a background sound bite. Nevertheless, the line is still clearly audible. The BBC journalist does not make any comment on the Pope's words. Could that mean the Pope's remark made it past the BBC editors? Or, again, did they or the reporter not think it very noteworthy?

In any case, it appears that the Pope fell prey to the near-omnipresence of video/audio recordings at these sorts of meetings, and therefore a comment that no doubt originated within a wider discussion will now, sadly, be analyzed and evaluated separated from its original context.

I guess we have at least one minor miracle: the UK Daily Mail got its story (fairly) straight.