Crisis? What Crisis?

Official Statistics from the Catholic Church in England & Wales

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The Shocking Facts Illustrating the Decline of the Church since the Second Vatican Council

	1944	1954	1964	1974	1984	1996
Catholic Population	2,372,074	2,939,900	3,827,000	4,162,942	4,220,262	4,134,000

	1944	1954	1964	1974	1984	1996
Mass Attendance	No figure	1,886,600 (1959)	2,114,219 (1966)	1,752,730	1,512,553	1,111,077

	1944	1954	1964	1974	1984	1996
Baptisms	71,604	92,380	137,673	80,587	71,698	67,412

	1944	1954	1964	1974	1984	1996
Conversions	8,722	11,920	12,348	5,253	5,146	5,180

	1944	1954	1964	1974	1984	1996
Marriages	30,946	37,921	45,592	36,566	28,061	15,522

	1944	1954	1964	1974	1984	1996
Priests	6,030	6,800	7,714	7,453	6,816	5,712

	1944	1954	1964	1974	1984	1996
Ordinations	178	219	230	146	92	72 (1994)

	1944	1954	1964	1974	1984	1996
First Communions	No figure	No figure	90,776 (1969)	87,592	53,873	No figure

	1944	1954	1964	1974	1984	1996
Confirmations	No figure	No figure	89,984	69,884	47,084	No figure