Confirmation
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Batignolles,
Confirmation,
Paris 17,
Ste.Marie des Batignolles
A confirmation ceremony took place in the Catholic parish church yesterday and it was just finished when I passed by. Some look a bit confused, some look happy. Are they happy for the ceremony to be over, to receive an expected gift, for the party that may follow…? How many will go back to the church again – except perhaps for their marriage?
The Catholic Church was separated from the state in 1905. It is today estimated that some 40 million of our about 61 million habitants are Catholics, however only some 8% seem to go to church on a weekly basis and for the age 18-29 the percentage is only 2%.
In France we have also some 4 or 5 million Muslims, some 800.000 Protestants…
