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    LONDON (CWNews.com) - Lapsed Catholics in London may soon receive a visit from local parishioners as part of a campaign to win them back.

    The Westminster Archdiocese is leading the way in the Millennium Campaign to renew contact with the thousands of Catholics who have drifted away from the Church. Some parishes have adopted the method of the Jehovah's Witnesses of door-knocking in pairs.

    The campaign was launched on Sunday, less than a week after new figures were published showing that while estimated Catholic population has grown to an estimated 4.2 million, Mass attendance figures have dropped by 30,000 over the last year to just 1,056,027.

    Westminster has responded by starting an outreach program asking parishes to set up teams who will write to lapsed Catholics in the area and visit them at home. The campaign is led by Auxiliary Bishop Vincent Nichols, who has been diocesan administrator since the death of Cardinal Basil Hume earlier this year.

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