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Crowds (many Filipinos) await the arrival of Pope Benedict outside Westminster Cathedral during Pope Benedict XVI's papal tour of Britain 2010, the first visit by a pontiff since 1982. Many Filipino Catholics were present at the Papal events and we see a mixture of British and those from the Philippines. Taxpayers footed the £10m bill for non-religious elements, which largely angered a nation still reeling from the financial crisis. Pope Benedict XVI is the head of the biggest Christian denomination in the world, some one billion Roman Catholics, or one in six people. In Britain there are about five million Catholics but only a quarter of Catholics regularly attend Sunday Mass and some churches have closed owing to spending cuts.

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Crowds (many Filipinos) await the arrival of Pope Benedict outside Westminster Cathedral during Pope Benedict XVI's papal tour of Britain 2010, the first visit by a pontiff since 1982. Many Filipino Catholics were present at the Papal events and we see a mixture of British and those from the Philippines. Taxpayers footed the £10m bill for non-religious elements, which largely angered a nation still reeling from the financial crisis. Pope Benedict XVI is the head of the biggest Christian denomination in the world, some one billion Roman Catholics, or one in six people. In Britain there are about five million Catholics but only a quarter of Catholics regularly attend Sunday Mass and some churches have closed owing to spending cuts.