The funeral last week of Pope John Paul II saw many tributes from heads of government and outpourings of love and affection from ordinary believers. Talk to young people about why there was such powerful feeling. Only people who have reached their thirties will remember when the last Pope died. Did young people expect there to be such interest in a remote elderly figure?
The Pope is head of the world's biggest organised Christian group. Yet only nine per cent of UK residents say they are Roman Catholic. Nearly 30 per cent say they belong to the Church of England, and two per cent are Muslim. But the biggest group - 40 per cent - say they don't have a religion.
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