England - London - Handing out free Catholic newspapers

Catholics read free newspapers to crowds outside Westminster Cathedral before Pope Benedict XVI arrives during his papal tour of Britain 2010, the first visit by a pontiff since 1982. The lady in the foreground with the Harrods bag finds something amusing inside the paper standing on the kerbside in Victoria Street closed to traffic. 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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Catholics read free newspapers to crowds outside Westminster Cathedral before Pope Benedict XVI arrives during his papal tour of Britain 2010, the first visit by a pontiff since 1982. The lady in the foreground with the Harrods bag finds something amusing inside the paper standing on the kerbside in Victoria Street closed to traffic. 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.