Hundreds of Swiss churchgoers have left the Catholic Church following revelations of sexual abuse.
The wave of departures is particularly strong in central Switzerland and Basel. In French-speaking Switzerland too, the number of departures has increased since mid-September, but at a lower level.
All the indications are that the “losses” in the Roman Catholic Church, which were already very pronounced in the record years of 2021 and 2022, have continued this year, even though the definitive figures drawn up annually by the Swiss Institute for Pastoral Sociology (SPI) have not yet been published. …
“ Hundreds of Swiss churchgoers have left the Catholic Church following revelations of sexual abuse.”
That’s pretty low number. Our fellow human beings incarcerated, abused, bought and sold by the church and yet some of us attend anyway.
Switzerland isn’t my country but it’s a similar story here.