Wednesday, January 02, 2008
CATHOLICISM OVER THERE
Roman Catholicism has become Britain’s dominant religion. According to a Telegraph.co.uk report, statistics now show there are more practicing Catholics in the kingdom than there are Anglicans. ...
Anglican Sunday worship attendance has dropped 20 percent in the past seven years to 852,000. Meanwhile, there are 861,000 Roman Catholics attending Sunday mass. ...
In addition to the falling church attendance trend, some Church of England leaders are considering turning Anglicans into Catholics by joining Catholicism outright and en masse. In October, the Traditional Anglican Communion, with a worldwide membership of 400,000, requested “full, corporate and sacramental union” with the Vatican. The move is seen as the culmination of a revolt away from what the group sees as liberalization of the Anglican Communion, which claims 80 million adherents.
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