Pope Benedict's four-day tour of Britain culminated on Sunday with the beatification ceremony of Cardinal John Henry Newman in Birmingham.
Riazat Butt has followed the pope's progress from a meeting with the Queen in Edinburgh, to mass in Glasgow, to an address at Westminster Hall and finally to the event in Birmingham.
Along the way she hears from Catholics who have queued for hours to catch a glimpse of the head of their church - and from those who have protested against the state visist, part-funded by the British government.
John Hooper, the Guardian's Rome correspondent, has travelled with the pope; Stephen Bates, a religious affairs expert, has been following his tour for the Guardian and Austin Ivereigh discuss the issues raised by the visit and what it tells us about attitudes to religion in 21st century Britain.
