A Comres poll found 79 per cent of people had "no personal interest" in the visit and 77 per cent do not think taxpayers should be paying for it.
They said that it was wrong to be expected to burden the cost of the tour around Scotland and England because the Pope is religious figure.
Taxpayers will shoulder between £10 million and £12 million of the bill for the trip.
The survey of 2,005 adults, conducted for Theos, a religious think-tank, showed only 29 per cent believed the visit would be good for Britain while a third disagreed with this....