Christians in Britain now a 'minority', top clerics say

Christians are now a "minority" in Britain, like persecuted Roman Catholics during the Reformation, Britain's top Anglican and Catholic clerics have declared.

Rt. Rev. Richard Chartres of the Anglican Church and Cardinal Vincent Nichols of England and Wales of the Catholic Church spoke at Hampton Court Palace, the venue of Henry VIII's separation with Rome. 

The Telegraph reported that the two churches now recognize they share a "common agenda," and in order to face problems in the age of secularism they would need to abate hundreds of years of division.

Evening prayers in the Royal Chapel had been joined by both clerics, a landmark hailed as a step for reconciliation between Anglicanism and Catholicism.

The Tablet reported that Bishop Chartres and Cardinal Nichols had prayed together in the Tower of London two years ago.

Last November, Pope Francis' personal preacher, Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa was invited to give his homily in Westminster Abbey during a Eucharist that marked the inauguration of the Church of England's General Synod's 10^{th five-year-term, as featured by the Anglian Communion News Service.}

The two prelates covered how both their churches have increasingly worked together.

Bishop Chartres expressed that the meeting is a celebration of their common agenda and how far the two churches have come over the years.

"Significant minority" was Cardinal Nichols' description of Catholics in Britain in which Bishop Chartres responded, "We are all minorities now."

The bishop also noted that the contrasts between their churches are now generally overlooked and that churches in London live in a "post-denominational" age.