RomeItaly
Catholic identity (~74%) but practicing rate has collapsed in two generations; very low under-30 attendance; growing "no religion"; small Muslim minority (~4%); heavy Catholic cultural infrastructure (saints, feast days, family Mass) persists.
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Rome is the literal center of the Roman Catholic Church and yet, like the rest of Italy, it has gone through a generation-long collapse in active Catholic practice. Sunday Mass attendance is in single digits in many Roman parishes, the under-30 practicing share is even lower, and yet baptisms remain near-universal, first communions are unmissable family events, and weddings and funerals in St. Peter’s vicinity are still mostly church affairs.
The Roman Catholic exit is therefore mostly about untangling the cultural and family rituals from the doctrinal claims you no longer hold. The pillar page on Catholicism and the pages on the guilt that lingers and on funerals and weddings will fit closely.
Elder X has been through the religious exit himself — the family rupture, the guilt that would not stop, the psych wards, the isolation of being the person nobody in your family understands anymore. If you are in Rome and that description lands, reach out. Not therapy. Personal advice from someone who made it to the other side.