After 400 year hiatus Catholicism is once again most popular in England

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Actually more people have been going to Catholic services than Anglican ones for about (or at least?) ten years now; and more people go to non-Anglican Protestant services than Catholic.

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But a survey by the group Christian Research published in the Sunday Telegraph newspaper showed that around 862,000 worshippers attended Catholic services each week in 2006 exceeding the 852,000 who went to the Church of England.

Given that the population of the United Kingdom is 60,776,238, those are not exactly numbers for either side to be proud of if their goal is to get everyone to church.

True. The funny thing is that on one level religious demographics haven't changed in sixty years (1978 Mass Observation thingy showed around 75% of the population at least slightly religious; figure has remained pretty stable over the six decades after then). The Churches can't really blame the outside forces of secularisation for their decline, the answer is closer to home (especially as regards the CofE. Anyone who's been to an Anglican service in the past few decades will understand what I mean here...)

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Stupid article fails to realize no faith is the most popular in England,

At the last census only 14.6% of people in England claimed that they had no religion (over 70% claimed to be Christians).

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Only 3% of people in England said they were Muslim.

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Wow.. is church attendance really that low - I mean I knew it was miniscule; but less than a million Anglicans? Despite everything I find this hard to believe.

Ever been to a CofE service? Do that and you'll understand everything regarding this issue.

Oh and there are far more than a million Anglicans here. Just that the overwhelming majority have no interest in going to church every week more than, at most, once or twice a year (three times, maybe, in rural areas).