Ever since the first signs of a Christian revival across Western Europe began appearing three years ago – a phenomenon that current liberal orthodoxy insists ought not to be happening at all – the media have been frantically groping for narratives that will allow them to fathom or explain away a trend which really oughtn’t (in their eyes) to be taking place.
They soon found their angle. Clinging onto often uncertain data, it was concluded that young men were responsible (or to blame, depending on your angle). This was reported by the National Catholic Register as the reason for the uptick in church attendance in Britain. Meanwhile at The Times, the Guardian and even here at the Catholic Herald, reports echoed these sentiments for trends on both sides of the Atlantic – citing findings from the Bible Society and the Barna Group respectively.
