Catholic Countries in Europe

Glad you brought that up WolfCam as the last couple of quizzes I've done have not mentioned Cyprus and I sort of miss not hearing peoples opinion on that. I get the same problem with Burma.

Catholic Cyprus? Interesting.

In the north it lies partly in Europe, though not Baku.

Try asking non-college educated people, they usually know more ;)

No, Henry VIII and Elizabeth I had a go at wiping us out but they didn't quite succeed.

There aren't a ton of Catholics in Germany, either. But both the UK and Germany are listed due to their large populations. By percentage, the number of Catholics is fairly small.

It really depends on how the question is phrased in a survey or other criteria (if you're baptized, you're considered a Catholic by the church, no matter how atheist you are): "Estimates of the proportion of Catholics range between 41% and 88% of France's population, with the higher figure including lapsed Catholics and "Catholic atheists"."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_France

It looks like about half of the kids are still baptized, though way less make it to confirmation.

Looks like it'll be majority Islam in the near future if current trends persist.

They tend to practice Orthodox Christianity.

Ukraine, as HendogJP said, is mainly Orthodox. Lithuania narrowly misses first column (number of Catholics should be around 75%) and is too small (2.8 million in total) to make it to the second one.

That's not true. Large parts of southern Germany (such as Bavaria) and western Germany are traditionally Catholic.

Germany is more Catholic than Protestant.

I think the data just uses citizens, not foreign residents, and unfortunately being Catholic (and working for the Catholic Church) is a literal requirement for citizenship of Vatican City.

It would have to identify as European.

I'm pretty sure if you ask literally any Christian regardless of denomination they'll be able to give you a long list of differences, objective or not... But it's a lot to do with the perceived importance of faith and scripture. One of Martin Luther's most famous interventions in Bible translation (which he vehemently denied, claiming it was a matter of grammar not theology) was saying that 'faith ALONE' was necessary to get into Heaven, which miffed Catholic authorities who had been telling people they needed to confess their sins and donate to the Church as well as believe. Catholics also believed until very recently that only Church authorities were able to interpret the Bible on behalf of the populace, so it shouldn't be translated into 'vernacular' languages.

It’s a good question.

Something to do with the nature of transubstantiation - ie whether the bread in holy communion represents, or literally becomes, the flesh of Christ.

Theological nuance, definitely worth the deaths of millions of humans throughout history…

Gotta love religion eh?

this is quite shocking :O I thought that they'd make the top 5 and they're not even among the top 10

That's sad for me to hear. I knew things were declining - and there are many reasons I can empathize with for that - but to think that Catholic identity is being lost that rapidly is a bummer.

They arrived in the modern world. Fair play to them…

Amazing - I thought that was the whole point of their fighting for independence from Great Britain!

It was until the latest update.

The 2022 census figures are at just under 70%, so high but not high enough for this quiz.