thirty-eight abortions occur for every hundred live births. Nearly half of newborn children go unbaptized. And many of those who are baptized will grow up without seeing the inside of a church. In just fifty years since Quebec’s “Quiet Revolution” of the 1960s, an entire Catholic culture has collapsed. None of this is news. FIRST THINGS has been covering French Canada’s religious terrain for two decades, and the recent fight over a “Quebec Charter of Values” put Quebec’s Catholic history back in
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