SIR: Christopher Akehurst quickly modifies the title of his article, “The Continual Decline of the Suburban Church” (July-August 2020) noting “it is obviously not true” of the large number of Pentecostal churches nor of the Roman Catholic Church, though contending that even here “the prospects are far from rosy”. I can only speak of my local St John’s Catholic Church, at Campbelltown, where, pre-Covid, the five Sunday masses were crowded, recent Pacific and Asian arrivals contributing to the number. And the pupils of its primary school regularly attend and take part in a weekday Mass. What he goes on to…