London, England (CNN) -- Pope Benedict XVI has not done enough to punish priests who abuse children, and the Catholic Church has not shown enough remorse for the crimes, British people said overwhelmingly in a poll released as the pope arrived in the United Kingdom Thursday.
And British Catholics are nearly as critical of the pope and the church as the population as a whole, the ComRes poll for CNN found.
Three out of four British adults say the pope hasn't done enough to punish the guilty. Among British Catholics, two out of three agree.
Fewer than one in 20 British people say he has done enough.
But only one in four think Benedict should resign over the child-abuse allegations sweeping across the Catholic Church in Europe and North America. Half said he should not, and the other quarter did not know.
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