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Gb: the Pope's visit to the Church wants more money

We need £ 3.5 million after the trip of Benedict XVI which has cost 10 million pounds. Officials uncertain about how best to raise additional funds.

The Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has until April to clear his debt multi-million dollar contract with the British government for the papal visit, but officials admit they do not know how to cope.

CAMERON WANTS MONEY BACK - The government, reported the Guardian , has covered many of the costs of Church for the four-day trip which took place last month and in a time when cuts are announced tears and blood for the British taxpayer, wants money back by the end of the year. The Church has so far collected 6.5 million pounds, but since the total cost was 10 million pounds, is facing a hole of 3.5 million pounds. To pay off the account, it relies heavily on dioceses and individual contributions, in addition to the sales of a prayer book on the papal visit.

FAITHFUL, YOU THINK - A collection parish has collected just 1.4 million pounds, while the 'appeal to the rich had more success, compensating with about 4 million pounds. The previous papal visit, Pope John Paul II made by in 1982, left the church with 13 million pounds of debt for at that time had to pay the full account of the pastoral tour. A spokesman for the Church of England and Wales told the Catholic Herald " E 'for administrators to decide how the papal visit addressing any deficiencies that will be there in April - we're just waiting for the government send all invoices, because without those it's hard to say exactly how much the financial cost. Not all the income of the Magnificat (prayer book ed) yet come, and we are still waiting for other sources .

stew COST - Last night a spokesman for the Foreign Office could not provide the exact amount owed by the Church, but said: "We are currently reconciling all costs of the visit and we will be able to update in due course on what the Church has yet to pay . Earlier this month it emerged that the draft law on state at a cost of £ 10 million was divided among various government departments, with 3.7 million pounds from the budgets of the 'Environment and energy. In documents obtained by Freedom of Information Act, the Treasury reported that the total budget for the visit of four days, with the exception of police, was 10 million pounds. These costs have been administered by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, who has paid the first tranche of 750,000 pounds, while the rest was divided equally among the five departments of the Treasury considered as those who had political objectives which most closely aligned to the papal visit and then helped in economic terms, the Environment, Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Communities and Local Government, Education and International Development.