Arson at Nantes Church Shows French Rel.Drop; Number of Practicing French Cath. Drops to 5%

For French Catholics, the recent fire at the cathedral of Nantes is yet another sign that their  Roman Catholic religion is in danger, the Religion News website reports today (July 29, 2020).

Over the past week, the French were upset to learn that the fire was deliberately set by one of their own.

A man who worked as an altar server at the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France confessed on July 26 to setting the fire that damaged the historic Gothic church.

While Catholics make up 41% of the French population, the number of practicing faithful may be as low as 5%.