RC vs CofE: which church should a young Christian join?
There has been discussion over the past few weeks that Britain’s young people are undergoing a religious revival. This Easter weekend, we asked two young writers to write about their church. The Spectator’s Margaret Mitchell is Catholic; Policy Exchange’s James Vitali is Anglican. You can read the discussion below. Margaret Mitchell There’s an episode of The Simpsons that gives an excellent argument for Catholicism. Bart gets sent to Catholic school where he becomes interested in the faith, while Homer becomes taken with the pancake suppers and bingo. Marge is not happy about this. She has a daydream about arriving at Protestant heaven to find WASP-y types with jumpers tied around their shoulders playing croquet, but her husband and son aren’t there.
