The Census and People of Faith The latest tactic of the secularists is their campaign throughout the media is to get anyone who doesn’t regularly attend church to mark themselves as “no religion” in the Census this week. This is seriously misleading: we all know people with faith who practise only irregularly, or who connect to God and Church in ways other than Mass attendance. However much we would like to see them more at Mass, we would never describe them as having “no religion”. Not only is this present campaign deceptive, it will also reduces our ability to get reliable information on where our people are, and so where we should concentrate infrastructure such as Catholic Churches, hospitals, schools etc. as well as where best to target our welfare and other services. This will give a distorted picture of who we are and where we are and so the secularists hope to use the Census as another excuse to deny believers a voice in the public square. Please ask all your family and friends to write their true religion on their Census form this week !