Posted on 12/22/2007 7:56:40 PM PST by melt
Roman Catholics have overtaken Anglicans as the country's dominant religious group. More people attend Mass every Sunday than worship with the Church of England, figures seen by The Sunday Telegraph show.
Blair becomes Catholic in private ceremony The changing face of British Christianity Your view: What can the Church of England do to win back worshippers? This means that the established Church has lost its place as the nation's most popular Christian denomination after more than four centuries of unrivalled influence following the Reformation.
Last night, leading figures gave warning that the Church of England could become a minority faith and that the findings should act as a wake-up call.
The statistics show that attendance at Anglican Sunday services has dropped by 20 per cent since 2000. A survey of 37,000 churches, to be published in the new year, shows the number of people going to Sunday Mass in England last year averaged 861,000, compared with 852,000 Anglicans worshipping.
The rise of Catholicism has been bolstered by an influx of immigrants from eastern Europe and Africa, who have packed the pews of Catholic parishes that had previously been dwindling.
It is part of the changing face of churchgoing across Britain in the 21st century which has also seen a boom in the growth of Pentecostal churches, which have surpassed the Methodist Church as the country's third largest Christian denomination.
Worshipping habits have changed dramatically with a significant rise in attendance at mid-week services and at special occasions - the Church of England expects three million people to go to a parish church over Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
As an evangelical, I don’t hate Catholics … I just think they are wrong in their theology and pray for them daily.
There is a virulent anti-religious feeling in that country and it is growing.
If one looks at the numbers over the past several decades, rather than a single snapshot in time figure, it becomes obvious that the numbers of both Catholics and Anglicans attending church has been falling dramatically. It's just that the Anglican fall off has been more precipitous than the Catholic fall off.
That is the real truth and it's no cause for celebration.
Ya want reasons?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1942562/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939146/posts
“What can the Church of England do to win back worshippers?”
Become more like the Catholic Church - stop gay ordinations and marriages and start talking morality instead of political correctness.
Personally as a non-specific kind of Protestant, I this point I think all Orthodox thinking Christians need to unite against the common menace of Islam and stop arguing theological points of little relevence.
Sure, Blame the Irish!!!!
I’m Catholic. I have this vision of St. Peter standing outside the Pearly Gates next to a sign that says, “Check your denomination here.”
Guess he didn't like the Big Bird hat either.
Catholics and Protestants believe in:
The Bible
the Trinity
Jesus Christ as a personal saviour and Son of God
Heaven and hell
A Last Judgement
A Resurrection of the dead
The Nicene Creed
Muslims believe in:
An Arab Moon God
Killing anyone who doesn’t convert
A pedophilic desert bandit as the Last Messanger of God
Women as personal possessions
Dogs as unclean
Forbidding consumption of beer, whiskey, ale, wine and all similar good traditional western beverages containing alcohol
No pork chops, frankfurters, pork loins, or pork roasts.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that Catholics and Protestants are far closer to each other than either is to Islam.
The world didn’t need the catholic church to preserve the bible. How arrogant. God would have preserved His Word with or without the Popes church.
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Am I supposed to be grateful for your tolerance?
I agree with you completely. Sadly though, they will go to their graves arguing those "points of little relevance."
IF this is true why are there so many threads about how Islam is taking over there and Mohammad is more popular than George? (the Names)
Next time you are reading the Holy Bible, thank the Lord for the Church. Without the Church, there would be no written bible. The Holy Scripture is God’s gift to the Church.
And then thank the Lord for the Protestant movement so you can have a personal copy of the Bible and have it printed in a language other than Latin.
No, just tolerant of those that don’t believe exactly as you do, as a Christian should.
Some of us do have a problem with them molesting little boys though.
Yes. If Catholic Priests and Public School Teachers were allowed to marry the children would be much safer.
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