It’s not always doom and gloom on this site. Sometime, there is a little good news that trickles my way, just in time to prevent me from believing that there is only evil in the world. It would appear that Catholicism is steadily eroding in Poland.

A recent survey showed that roughly 70% of the population identified themselves as Catholic in the country. Now to us, this may still seem unusually high, but that number is down from the 87% that identified as such only a decade earlier. The main demographic to leave the church is, unsurprisingly, young people.

A 2021 study by leading Polish pollster CBOS suggests the number of regularly practicing Catholics aged 18-25 fell by more than half in the previous six years.

This is probably due to the fact that the church is heavily involved in politics, including being extremely close to the leading “Law and Justice” party (just the kind of fascist rhetoric that a favorite of those professing the Nicene Creed). While they may have dominated for the last few years, young people are unresponsive to their outdated, sexist, and barbaric ideals. With an aging populous, they have been able to maintain their grip on power, though this is surely not to last.

The next few decades will be interesting for Poland. As they begin to take a bigger role in European politics, their exposure to new ideas are bound to continue to force their repressive religious taskmasters to the wayside. Here’s hoping that they eventually cast off these sectarian shackles and dictate the future of the country free of the grip of Rome and its cronies.