The article on "Catholicism Today " in Monday's Times was
extremely interesting, but the sub-heading: " RELATIONS BETWEEN ROME AND THE CHRISTIAN WORLD" shakes me a little. Is this contrast really necessary ? Perhaps it is. Anyhow, the article, as I say, is interesting, particularly for its mention (on the authority of the Catholic Directory) of the number of Roman Catholics in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, which is put at 3,500,000. This is a striking figure, which compares with an estimated, but I think not very authoritative, 2,360,000 Anglicans in England, Scotland and Wales and 345,000 members of the Church of Ireland. Some of these figures, taken from standard reference-books, are out of date. Whether statistics accurately representing the present
position are available I have not been able to discover.
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