What do the green shoots mean?

The revival conundrum

The 2024 Easter Vigil at Westminster Cathedral: the first of several good years?
PHOTO: © CBCEW.ORG.UK, MARCIN MAZUR

More people were received into the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Southwark this Easter than for over a decade. There are signs of recovery and new growth across parishes in Britain – yet there is no evidence that the steady fall in Mass attendance is being reversed. A leading sociologist examines the apparent paradox

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