Don't know much history, do you? Britain is historically the most virulent and violent anti-Catholic country of all.
I'm steeped in the history of persecutions of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I against Catholics, and especially Catholic clergy. Edmund Campion and Edmund Arrowsmith are favourites of mine. Both were hung, drawn and quartered for the 'treason' of not professing the English Faith. But like a branch cut from the root the Church of England is dying.
It has lost its moral vision. It has ordained women and openly homosexual priests and bishops, blesses same sex unions, promotes artificial contraception, is now silent on abortion and euthanasia if not out rightly supportive. It has faced inner revolts and schisms over its liberalism, relativism and rejection of scripture .
The decline in its membership has been so precipitous that it might cease to exist by the middle of the 21st Century. Who needs a church that tells you to make up your own rules and that there are no consequences for your decisions.
So real Christianity will likely survive in Britain, grafted on to its original trunk. The Catholic Church has attempted to form an Anglican Rite of RCC, which accepts some of the forms and rituals of the Anglicans but retains the rigour of its own moral dogma, with mixed results so far.
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