A record number of adults in France is expected to have received baptism throughout the country in Easter, mainly driven by young people who join the Catholic Church.
About 10,384 adults in France are scheduled to be baptized between Saturday night and Easter Sunday, chrowing the Bishop Conference of France (CEF). This also comes from an addition 7,404 adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18 who are expected to collect baptism this week.
CEF declared that record numbers were largely driven by people under 25, with a 45 percent increase among adults compared to last year, and a 33 percent increase among adolescents. This can be partially explained by the fact that less babies are baptized by their parents and, therefore, there are more teenagers and young adults who can request the sacrament.
However, others have also suggested that a cultural change is being made in the country. When commenting on the increase in the popularity of the Catholic Church with young people, the former bishop of Fréjus-Toulon, Monsignor Rey, assumed that many are experiencing a lack of meaning in modern society.
“In now where both individualism and consumerism are unbridled, where they awaken the culture by constructing while promising the absolute freedom of the body of one, where the anthropological reference points are atomized, in good dead, the measures of the measures are measured measures measures of measures measures of measures. Valeurs Actuelles.
The political scientist Jérôme Fourquet suggested that there were multiple factors in the resurgence of the Catholic Church during the last decade in France, which many had rejected to follow the scandals of sexual abuse.
Fourquet argued that the 2013 law that allowed same -sex marriage in France fundamentally interrupted the “civilization framework” and caused a strong mobilization of Catholics against modern trends about sexuality. Hello, he also said that the series of Islamist terrorist attacks that begin in 2015 in France had caused many to see their country as a Christian land under attack.
Finally, the political scientist followed that the 2019 fire in the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris was the tasks as a God’s omen to return to the Church.
Pauline, a 26 -year -old woman who was raised in an atheist home, told the publication that she intends to be baptized in the next two years, saying: “I am attracted to the beauty of Christian morality, which advocates charity, humility, humility, love, mercy … just as this culture has shaped our civilization for millenia is spiritual and cultural.”
Although France is one of the most secular societies in the world, with a 2021 survey discovering that more than half of the population does not believe in God, a survey this week found that 77 percent still sees France as a cultural and traditional Catholic country.