While Mass-attendance rates have steeply declined over the last 30 years, today France is witnessing the rise of an increasingly self-confident—and dynamically orthodox—Catholicism.
When many
think about France and religion today, the images that usually come to mind are
those of a highly secular society with a growing Islamic presence: a
combination of widespread indifferentism, epicurean Voltairans, persistent
anti-Semitism, increasingly radicalized Muslims, and now jihadist-inspired and
organized terrorism. But now even some secular French journalists have started
writing about a phenomenon that’s become difficult to ignore: an increasingly self-confident
Catholicism that combines what might be called a dynamic orthodoxy with a
determination to shape French society in ways that contest the status quo—both
inside and outside the Church.
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