Quote Originally Posted by Ouistreham View Post
Only if you consider Northern Europe in the most restrictive sense, i.e. North of Amsterdam—Hannover—Berlin—Riga.


Same for Spain or Italy. In some regions nearly everybody went to the parish church on sundays, but that was 20 or 30 years ago.
Now it's an outdated stereotype.
It's not any different in Poland, I suppose it must be the same in Ireland.
Year after year Mass attendance is plummeting in all Catholic countries.
It seems that the Catholic doctrine is diminishing while the opposite happens with the Protestant.