I have seen a number of reports on the diminishing role that religion is playing in European countries, esp. the catholic ones.

It is unfortunate that, as with the fundamentalists in any religion, it will be the poor and uneducated that fall for the church's line. They will give any money they have, do what the church says, breed like cockroaches while they are at it and then leave it up the the rest of us to pay the bill.