Sometimes on holiday at Mass in a church I've become aware that pretty well everyone in the church is white, and it feels rather strange. But of course that's in a town where there don't happen to be many others.

In the church I go to, which is in a midsized town in England, our congregation is very multiethnic. Maybe one in three of us are some shade of brown or black - Africans, Indians, Philipinos, Vietnamese. And the whiter ones of us are pretty diverse, as well as English, Irish and Scots we've got Poles, Maltese, Portuguese... 

And I don't think we're particularly unusual in English Catholicism. Where the population in an area is made up of people with different ethnicities, so are the congregations.