German Exodus: Half a Million Catholics Abandon Church in Historic Departure, by AC Wimmer

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The Catholic Cathedral of Limburg in Hesse, Germany. (photo: Mylius / Wikimedia/GFDL 1.2)

Despite these departures, Church statistics for 2022 show that nearly 21 million people in Germany remained officially Catholic by the end of the year, representing 24.8% of the country’s resident population of 84.4 million.

By AC Wimmer, CNA, June 28, 2023

The Catholic Church in Germany is facing an unprecedented crisis, with more than half a million baptized Catholics leaving the Church in 2022, according to figures released by the German Bishops’ Conference on June 28.

This marks the highest number of departures ever recorded, with 522,821 people choosing to leave the Church, according to CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German-language partner news agency. …

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