Emmanuel Macron is simply the figurehead of a reality French sociologists describe thusly: “Catholicism seems to have attained a kind of life after death,” in which 50 percent of people still identify as Catholic, but only 5 percent regularly attend Mass.
France’s “zombie” Catholic president
Emmanuel Macron is simply the figurehead of a reality French sociologists describe thusly: “Catholicism seems to have attained a kind of life after death,” in which 50 percent of people still identify as Catholic, but only 5 percent regularly attend Mass.
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