MilanItaly
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.
Localized version for English
Milan, like the rest of northern Italy, has gone through a generation-long collapse in active Catholic practice while retaining nearly universal Catholic family rituals (baptism, first communion, church weddings and funerals). The Milanese deconstruction is therefore mostly about the family-event calendar rather than doctrinal commitment.
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 Milan and that description lands, reach out. Not therapy. Personal advice from someone who made it to the other side.