Secularization

New Zealand cardinal: Church has ‘shortcomings’ with LGBT community
- Jun 21, 2018
Cardinal John Dew of New Zealand said the bishops of the country “humbly acknowledge our shortcomings” after a new survey of religion in the island nation says only a third of the country identifies as Christian, down from 43 percent in 2013, and 49 percent in 2006.

By Crux Staff
Catholics in Ireland are “cultural,” not committed to their faith, bishop says
- Jun 18, 2018
Ireland is home to “cultural Catholics” who are not “Catholics by conviction,” according to the Bishop of Kilmore.

By Charles Collins
Catholics decry Swedish political party’s plan to close all religious schools
- Mar 21, 2018
Catholic educators in Sweden have denounced a political party’s promise to ban all religious schools as a political maneuver capitalizing on people’s fears in order to obtain votes.

By Mary Rezac

Chaput: Coercion in American culture is ‘soft’ but real
- Feb 28, 2018
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput spoke to Crux about his new book ‘Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World.’

By Charles C. Camosy
Catholic schools in Ireland might lose right to choose their students
- Jan 19, 2018
A proposal to end the ability of Catholic schools in Ireland to give preference to Catholic children is causing fears over the increasing secularization of society in the majority-Catholic country.

By Charles Collins
Dutch cardinal: Don’t underestimate power of Catholics as a ‘creative minority’
- Oct 3, 2017
Between 2003 and 2013, the Catholic population of the Netherlands declined by 589,500. Catholics now represent just 22.9 percent of the country according to 2015 data. Cardinal Wilhelm Jacobus Eijk, archbishop of Utrecht, says the solution to growing secularism is for faithful Catholics to build a culture of life by becoming a “creative minority.”

By Andrea Gagliarducci