Austria: More Catholics Leaving Church Under Francis Than Benedict

(Vienna) in Austria in 2013, there were more leaving the church than in 2012. Nearly 55,000 Catholics have left the Catholic Church as a corporate body under public law. Thus more Austrians left the Church in the first year of the pontificate of Pope Francis, than in the last year of the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI. The church leaders wonder about this phenomenon, which they had not expected.

The increase in withdrawals is 4.8 percent. The percentage of Catholics in Austria's population has thus declined to a record low.

Believers can suffer excommunication and therefore the exclusion from the ecclesial community. [Especially if they don't want to support the Liberal Tax-Church regime with its poorly managed healthcare facilities, liturgical abuses and shoddy catechesis.]

Full article at The Eponymous Flower