Declining Mass attendance has hit Antarctica, with the US Antarctic Program announcing this week that some 60 years of Catholic ministry on the continent will come to an end. A Catholic priest from the diocese of Christchurch in New Zealand has been based at the Chapel of the Snows, at McMurdo Station, every summer since 1957. Two priests, Frs Gerry Creagh and John Coleman, had a glacier and a peak named after them respectively.But due to a decline in churchgoing the National Science Foundation, which manages the programme, has decided that from now on the Antarctic will be served only by a military chaplain, who will provide interdenominational services. Fr Dan Doyle, coordinator of the Church’s presence in Antarctica, who first went there 30 years ago, reports that the summer popu