‘The Church is not finished yet’: the unexpected revival of French Catholicism
A young catechumen receives a purple scarf in Meaux cathedral
After half a century of steady decline in belief, a commuter town outside Paris finds itself witnessing a rise of over 600 per cent in baptisms.
Half an hour outside Paris, on the commuter line, lies a small town which must rank among the most underrated in France. As well as being home to the country’s Brie industry, and producing arguably the finest mustard in the world (Pommery Moutarde de Meaux, for any aficionados out there), the commune of Meaux also boasts one of France’s oldest and grandest cathedrals. In recent years, it has found itself at the centre of the widely reported Catholic revival.
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