Number of posts : 28549 Age : 64 Location : Uranus Registration date : 2008-05-15
Subject: Who should pay for the Pope's visit? Sat May 22, 2010 9:31 am
By the time Mass has ended this Sunday morning, the Catholic Church in the UK hopes the trickle of pounds and pence onto collection plates will have raised £1m towards this year's papal visit.
The total bill for the invited visit - without the cost of police and security - is estimated by the Foreign Office to be about £15m. Of this, £7m will come from the Catholic Church, the rest will be shouldered by taxpayers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8692756.stm
mazzie senior member
Number of posts : 5550 Age : 75 Location : bonnie scotland Registration date : 2009-05-24
Subject: Re: Who should pay for the Pope's visit? Sat May 22, 2010 9:42 pm
I am of the opinion that these events are over-rated. That is an obscene amount of money to have to fork out for one little man to visit a small country like ours. In my opinion, if its the Catholic Church that wants the visit, then they should pay for it. But I have to say £15K could be put to much better use than that.
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