I WISH all those people, including politicians who say Christianity is out of fashion had attended my local St Patrick’s Church, Newport, during holy week and on the Easter weekend packed out. 

They will have been shocked to find it is still alive and thriving, and in many other local Christian churches. 

However, Christianity is not dying of natural causes; attempts have been made to kill it off, especially in schools, to be replaced by the secular religion of sexual diversity.

Atheists, Darwinists, and Communists have tried to substitute their world views for Christianity; all failed to capture the public imagination; while Christianity survived their murderous attempts. Now this unholy alliance is redoubling that effort, because to them, Christianity’s survival is an existential challenge. 

To young people prematurely aged by plunging from the presumption that the world can be made perfect, to despair that it appears impossible the crucifixion offers a message of hope.

Its opponents have failed to learn the lesson of history, that persecution purges it but only makes it stronger, for it is the ancient thing that renews itself from within from a well of everlasting, divine love.

Norman Plaisted
Vivian Road 
Newport