[neocon]

Some Anglican conservatives had called for the St-Martin-in-the-Fields church venue to be changed to a secular one.

Do they actually hold services at St. Martin-in-the-Fields? I've never noticed anyone actually worshiping there. They do have a decent, inexpensive cafeteria in the basement, and there are candle-light Baroque concerts in the nave on Thursday nights. Oh, and brass-rubbings. You can make rubbings of brass-relief (pun intended) figures in the gift shop.

But in light of the fact that more Catholics attend Mass on Sunday than Anglicans attend their respective services - in a country where Anglicanism is (still) the established church, I'd say we RC's needn't feel compelled to take "bishop" Vicki's "advice" seriously. (The Brompton Oratory is usually packed on Sunday morning.)

[Heatseeker]

This chart (hat tip Antioch) on NYer's thread pretty much says it all:

[Cronos]

Do they actually hold services at St. Martin-in-the-Fields? I've never noticed anyone actually worshiping there

Well, I've seen notices there but never actually seen anyone either! Been for a few musical concerts there

[Cronos]

that's true of most CAtholic churchs in England. There are cases of Catholic families on holiday in the countryside going to Anglican Catholic (High) churches.

[Cronos]

Maybe those weekend trippers make up the numbers that the deluded Vicki Genie Robin thinks constitute an exodus