Churchgoing Stabilises in the Uk

[ConfusedTim]

The figures show that in the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, a long-term decline in weekly Mass attendance ended in 2005 and the figures have been broadly stable since. In 2008 there were 918,844 attending church each week, up from 915,556 the year before

telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7992616/Churchgoing-stabilises-after-years-of-decline-research-shows.html

 

[SilenJack]

mirabile dictu!

 

[Kaninchen]

The figures show that in the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, a long-term decline in weekly Mass attendance ended in 2005 and the figures have been broadly stable since. In 2008 there were 918,844 attending church each week, up from 915,556 the year before

telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7992616/Churchgoing-stabilises-after-years-of-decline-research-shows.html

There were nearly a million (including about half a million Poles - ie very Catholic) eastern European immigrants to the UK in the period after EU expansion eastward in 2004.

 

[Netty1]

I’m a convert and have noticed an increase in the number of converts from Church of England to Catholicism in the last couple of years.