Review of "Out of the Catacombs"

In “Out of the Catacombs,” Bishop Andrews discussed the Catholic Church in Sweden. The Bishop was born in 1949 and grew up in Lund, Sweden, where he explored relations of the catholic faith and converted at the age of twenty. In his lecture, the Bishop discussed how secularized the country has become, and he talked about three ways such a secular nation could become unified as one catholic community.
Sweden has become one of the most secularized nations in Europe, if not the world. Previous to World War II, Sweden had only 5,000 Catholics. However, refugees after World War II fled to the country and the catholic population grew in a striking way. Polish refugees came directly from the concentration camps first, and since then Jews, Hungarians, Croatians, Latin Americans, Vietnamese, and Africans have made their way there. The country has become very secularized, and very similar to the situation in the United States, with “global villages” that have various cultures...