Brian Toomey (Letters, 9 May) thinks that the Church ought to change key issues relating to the family and that not to do so would result in its decline in England. Evidence to the contrary, however, is all around us. The vibrant expanding parishes are those that do not dilute and dumb down Catholic morality (for example, the Oratories of St Philip Neri to name just a few). Furthermore, a survey called “The Churching of America” came to this conclusion: “The more a religious organisation compromises with society and the world, blurring its identity and modifying its teaching and ethics, the more it will decline.” One needs to only look at Anglicanism to see that this is true, where the uncomprom­ising evangelicals are the only growing part of the Church of Engl