Guess he didn't like the Big Bird hat either.
Come all you Catholic haters, this is your third chance in two days to flame Rome!
I suggest dropping the BS and start praying... we have bigger fish to fry.
Can we get our churches back now? Or are they mosques?
Will the last person to leave the Anglican Faith, please turn out the light!
Paging the Defender of the Faith. Oh, wait, the defender-apparent is a TROP aficionado. Better the country is aligned with the Pope. Nevermind
And in recent years Irish citizens have settled in the UK by the hundreds of thousands....or more.
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England a catholic nation again. Get out of town. What will the King say? Oops the Queen.
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.
Guess he didn't like the Big Bird hat either.
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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)
Maybe now they will finally leave Ireland.
861,000 Catholics + 852,000 Anglicans ==================== 1,713,000 observant Christians -------------------------------- === 3.379 percent 50,690,000 population of EnglandOuch! Granted, there are other Christian denominations in England (primarily Pentecostals, Methodists, and Presbyterians) not herein enumerated, but I wonder how many people go to an English mosque in any given week? Worse still, the Catholics didn't expand their congregations to attain primacy; they merely slowed their descent. To put this non-churchgoing phenomenon in perspective, let us consider my home parish in Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City boasts a population of 747,003 (including suburbs). A similar church attendance rate would put 25,244 people in the pews on any given Sunday. I'd estimate at least 500 people at each of three Masses at my parish. From visiting various other parishes throughout the City over the years, I can tell you that many other Catholic parishes boast similar attendance at their Anglophone Masses. (Many parishes offer Mass in Spanish, Vietnamese, Korean, and various other languages.) Given the number of parishes in the City and its suburbs, we can surmise that the Mass attendance in Oklahoma City easily proportionally exceeds Anglican Church attendance in England. And Oklahoma City ranks among the least Catholic dioceses in the country. I don't even have to consider the various Protestant denominations--Southern Baptists, Pentecostals, "independent" churches, Methodists, Episcopalians, Nazarenes. Many such churches easily accommodate a thousand worshipers once, twice, or thrice a Sunday--and their parking lots usually fill that time of week. It is often said that you can't beat something with nothing. And most Britons apparently have no serious faith. The Christian churches of the once-great nations of Europe continue to sink in attendance as they often sink in religious fervor. Ethnic Europeans in Europe don't reproduce. Perhaps that's why Muslims attract converts from the irreligious population. Perhaps the most alarming statement in the article comes at the end: "It isn't a competition. I'm delighted to see all Christian denominations flourishing," said the Anglican Right Reverend Graham Cray, apparently unaware of the long-term precipitous decline in attendance at his Church. The demographic implosion of civilized Europeans continues apace, and we only can hope that a stagnant Catholic Church can revive it. God bless the Pope Benedict XVI as he makes whatever effort he can muster to save Europe. Mark Steyn argues in America Alone that it will not suffice, leaving America alone (possibly alongside Australia) as the only world outpost of Western civilization some decades hence. I'm inclined to agree.
God save Prince Foppy...if the muslims get him first.
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