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Sexual abuse victims stand outside Westminster Abbey to show pictures of themselves as young people during Pope Benedict XVI's papal tour of Britain 2010, the first visit by a pontiff since 1982. Young girl in the picture and whose nails hold the Comunion portrait is Therese Albrecht from Chicago who was raped as an 8 year-old. 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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Sexual abuse victims stand outside Westminster Abbey to show pictures of themselves as young people during Pope Benedict XVI's papal tour of Britain 2010, the first visit by a pontiff since 1982. Young girl in the picture and whose nails hold the Comunion portrait is Therese Albrecht from Chicago who was raped as an 8 year-old. 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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