Article: Holy war: the battle of St Stephen's

"Where can I find St Stephen's Church?" I ask an efficient looking Kensington matriarch swaddled against the May morning chill in a Puffa jacket and Scotch House kilt. "Oh, St Stephen's," she barks. "Bang opposite the Mongolian Barbeque in Gloucester Road." I thank her, patting the impatient foxhounds circling her blue court-heeled shoes. She smiles condescendingly. Then a look of patrician disdain crosses her steely visage. "You're not a . . . Carth'lick are you?", as if to say Mongolian.

It seems strange that a Catholic should be taken for a dangerous exotic. But then St Stephen's, Kensington, is a pretty rum church, having been split since Easter between Roman Catholic and Anglican, or ...

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