(April 23, 2025 at 6:57 am)Mr Greene Wrote:(April 23, 2025 at 4:36 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I can’t share your optimism. Organized religions are like genital herpes - they never really go away and can flare up at any time.
Boru
Here the average age of the congregation is in the late 70's and rising at ~6 months per annum, so the link from generation to generation has been broken.
CofE and Catholics are falling back on the cathedrals (to concentrate the remaining congregation) most smaller places are now without a church entirely.
Priests are covering 2 or 3 churches in seperate towns. The churches that had been 'mothballed for future generations' have now largely been sold off and converted to other purposes.
For most of northern Europe it's over.
Look at what's happening in Africa. The future of the RCC is there.
