30 January 2014, The Tablet

Wells of experience


 
It was a great relief to read Fr Paul Graham’s article on the “Pentecostal drift” (25 January) of Catholics. The problem in London has been obvious to parish clergy for some time and the quite scary statistics have been documented. Six months ago, the urgency of the problem was raised at a senior level with Westminster Diocese which said that it would be discussed with Southwark Diocese and Pentecostal church leaders. Nothing further has been heard about it.Understandably. The people who ought to be discussing it are those with first-hand ­experience – not “the management”, or even the clergy who, like Fr Graham, are actively engaged in the problem, but Catholic laymen and -women who sometimes or even normally attend non-Catholic churches while ­
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