{"id":1198,"date":"2001-09-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-09-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/09\/09\/2001-09-09-cardinal-laments-that-christianity-almost-vanquished-in-uk\/"},"modified":"2001-09-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-09-09T12:00:00","slug":"2001-09-09-cardinal-laments-that-christianity-almost-vanquished-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/09\/09\/2001-09-09-cardinal-laments-that-christianity-almost-vanquished-in-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Laments That Christianity &#8220;Almost Vanquished in UK&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/hi\/english\/uk\/newsid_1527000\/1527876.stm\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, ENGLAND, September 6, 2001: Christianity has been &#8220;all but eliminated&#8221; as a source of moral guidance in people&#8217;s lives, according to the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales. The Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O&#8217;Connor also lamented the fact people were &#8220;indifferent&#8221; to Christian values and the Church when he addressed the National Conference of Priests in Leeds. &#8220;In our countries in Britain today, especially in England and Wales, that Christianity, as a sort of backdrop to people&#8217;s lives and moral decisions &#8211; and to the government, the social life of the country &#8211; has now almost been vanquished,&#8221; the Archbishop said. He added that music, new age and occult practices seemed to be replacing Christ as something in which young people could trust. The remarks come against a background of a steady decline in attendance at mass and a worsening shortage of priests. Between 1995 and 1999, 21 of the 5,600 Catholic priests in England and Wales were convicted of offenses against children. In July, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O&#8217;Connor himself acknowledged he had made a mistake after it emerged that as Bishop of Arundel and Brighton he appointed a pedophile priest as chaplain to the Gatwick Airport chapel despite concerns about his behavior. Father Michael Hill, who was released from prison last autumn, served three and a half years of a five-year sentence imposed in 1997 for nine sex attacks.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE LONDON, ENGLAND, September 6, 2001: Christianity has been &#8220;all but eliminated&#8221; as a source of moral guidance,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}