Make the Pope pay | National Secular Society
At a time when many people are facing pay cuts and the loss of their jobs, the pope is set to make a state-funded visit the UK later this year that will cost British taxpayers an estimated £20 million.
Click here to sign the National Secular Society's petition for the Catholic Church to pay for the pope's visit.
The text of the petition reads:
"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to ask the Catholic Church to pay for the proposed visit of the Pope to the UK and relieve the taxpayer of the estimated £20 million cost. We accept the right of the Pope to visit his followers in Britain, but public money would be better spent on hard-pressed schools, hospitals and social services which are facing cuts."
