Look who’s going to Mass
I said in the post below that the story of Britain’s growing Catholic population is not getting the coverage it deserves, considering the magnitude of this turn of events.
But it’s getting more attention with Tony Blair’s conversion. Rocco Palmo has this over at Whispers. I like his opening.
In the fifth century since Henry VIII’s break with Rome /
the one hundred fifty-eighth year of the re-establishment of the hierarchy in England and Wales /
the eighty-second Advent from Graham Greene’s conversion /
the twenty-fourth hour of Tony Blair’s reception /
the whole Anglican Communion (and much of Catholicism) being at conflict……Britain has “become a ‘Catholic country,'” the Sunday Telegraph reports:
Nice proclamation, Rocco.
Then he gets into that Telegraph report…
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.
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.
A wake-up call to….what exactly? The way the original split from Rome happened in the first place?
Further down, he cites an op-ed piece on the worship trend in Britain.
Speak to people who have been received into the Catholic Church and the comment they make is nearly always the same: “I feel as if I have come home”.
Blessed homecoming. Blessings to all, wherever home is.
