⚜️ The French Canada Thread | Discussion sur le Canada français ⚜️

[mousquet]

^ The secular state/government and the private sector replaced the church in most basic respects such as education and healthcare.
Even so-called Catholic schools are widely secular in France nowadays. You don't have to go to church when you attend their classes, far from there. Their teachers themselves are often atheists.
We're not going back to the time when schools and hospitals were managed by priests and nuns.

The deteriorated social environment, lack of hope or ideals, widespread depression and other alarming observations are something real, but I doubt the Catholic church could address those issues on her own, especially when her own codes are somewhat outdated by contemporary society.
I guess it's mostly up to education to do the job. Also, mental health shouldn't be neglected as it's been in my country for too long.

Other than that, spirituality is something a bit odd and mysterious, obviously harder to explain than mere materialism.
What is faith in God? Some kind of interpretation of life, I guess, like some way to look at the world around you.
Good on those who have it, but you can't blame on those who don't.