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	Newspaper Survey Finds Staggering Losses for Church in France Catholic Culture January 11, 2010 http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=5137 A survey for the French daily La Croix has found a stunning secularizing trend in France in the past generation. The number of French respondents identifying themselves as Catholic dropped form 81% in 1965 to 64% last year; weekly Mass attendance plummeted from 27% to 4.5%. The survey data is available in a PowerPoint presentation, through a link on the French-edition site of L’Osservatore Romano. The Rorate Caeli sites summarizes the most salient points for English readers.
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