A confident faith
Today our churches are emptying at an alarming rate. People are falling away from the christian faith in their droves. According to the spectator magazine: "Every ten years the census spells out the situation in detail: between 2001 and 2011 the number of Christians born in Britain fell by 5.3 million — about 10,000 a week. If that rate of decline continues, the mission of St Augustine to the English, together with that of the Irish saints to the Scots, will come to an end