Father Donald Minchew was followed by 70 of his flock when he left the Anglican church where he has led services for nearly two decades to join a Catholic church less than 500 yards up the road.
He said the extraordinary leap of faith made him feel like the ‘Prodigal Son’ returning to a church with established beliefs after years of enduring the ‘pick and choose’ attitude of the C of E where congregations are fed on a diet of ‘pap and banality’.'I am not sure that this is the right way forward at all but the state of the C of E will lead to many such exits in the future. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2128327/Vicar-converts-Catholicism-protest-takes-half-congregation-him.html#ixzz1rmevEsjD