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The extraordinary resurgence of the Catholic faith in Britain As younger generations look for more clarity in their lives, many are turning to faith to find answers
The telegraph ^ | 13th April 2025 | Catherine Pepinster

Posted on 04/13/2025 2:29:35 PM PDT by Cronos

There’s something very unexpected when you meet Harry Clark. It’s not just that this affable 24-year-old won the second series of BBC1’s hit show, The Traitors, by proving to be the most devious game player of that group.

It’s also that the tattoos of this former soldier are all about his Catholic faith. He proudly shows me one on his hand, complete with a cross, saying: “Be who God meant you to be and you’ll set the world on fire” .

...“You can be so lost but then you are found”, he tells me over Zoom. “God is the only one who knows everything about me. It’s like a vase that shatters and God is the one that can put together the shards.”

...This Easter, thousands of people are going to be received into the Catholic Church, and substantial numbers of them are under the age of 35.

Some are already Christian, moving to the Catholic Church from other denominations, including the Church of England. But many will be baptised, having previously had either only a vague belief in God or none at all.

In the biggest Catholic diocese, Westminster, at least 500 people will become Roman Catholics this Easter, with half being baptised, while around 450 will do so in the Diocese of Southwark.

...“They are not extremist or fundamentalist, but they have been looking for something and the words they use a lot about the Catholic Church is coherence and consistency”.

...“Catholic theology has a coherence for me. It makes sense, gives me a connection with Christ,” he says. “For me it is a lifeline and a reason to continue,” he says. “I can confidently say that Christ is the light of the world”.

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(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 04/13/2025 2:29:35 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

last time the Catholic faithful went head to head with a muslim invasion the world got the crusades. not sayin’ that’s a bad thing.


2 posted on 04/13/2025 2:45:27 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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To: Qwapisking

Will they get free armored suits, horses and big swords?


3 posted on 04/13/2025 3:15:02 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Cronos

Once we get a decent Pope instead of a homo commie, we can take back all the cathedrals and property Henry VIII stole. That’s why Anglicans love muzzies. Both ‘religions’ were founded by murdering psychopaths.


4 posted on 04/13/2025 3:40:19 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: Qwapisking

The British Catholics had better start researching Priest Holes.

This time it won’t be Anglicans coming for their priest it will be Muslims.


5 posted on 04/13/2025 3:50:45 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Cronos

They need another Crusade. Most don’t realize the Crusades occurred because Islam had conquered and occupied much of Europe, Spain, Italy ( they beheaded a couple hundred bishops in the Vatican),…..the Crusaders rightfully expelled them, then took the fight all the way to Jerusalem.


6 posted on 04/13/2025 4:05:41 PM PDT by delta7
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To: monkeyshine

armored suits and big swords...yes. as for horses there will be a cadre of followers with halves of coconuts.


7 posted on 04/13/2025 5:01:48 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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To: Cronos

Left-wing news coverage would have us believe England is Muslim.


8 posted on 04/13/2025 6:42:26 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: Cronos

A refreshing and wonderful article.

Thank you.


9 posted on 04/13/2025 6:54:39 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: simpson96

And I thought England embracing current Catholicism was due to their closeted buggering and a gay pope, not the gay goat lovers. All in the entire mix makes for Strange Bed Fellows.


10 posted on 04/13/2025 7:40:51 PM PDT by Jumper
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