Roman Mass Online: 21-Year Old Becomes A Catholic
Raised as a pagan, he became interested in politics and religion through online videos. He was baptised a Protestant in 2019.
Steeunhower first studied mechanical engineering, but then switched to [useless] theology at a Protestant faculty in Amsterdam. He found his way to the Church via the internet,
"First, I read ‘Brideshead Revisited' by Evelyn Waugh on the recommendation of Bishop Barron, and I also watched the Tridentine Mass online, with Mozart's Requiem, and I was really stunned by how beautiful it was.”
He began attending the Eucharist, where he noticed that few people went to church and almost all were over 60.
In the 1980s, 37% of Dutch children were baptised in the Church (today <3%) and 38% of marriages were celebrated in the Church (2022: <1%).
After the failed Second Vatican Council, the Netherlands was held up as a model to be emulated, and many believed that...
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