“I didn’t think there were any Catholics left in Europe. The church has no influence in Spain France or even Italy. I think Poland is the only Catholic country left.”
You made my point. They’ve had a 60+ year political alliance with the Marxists in Europe on “social justice” and, like I said, they “won” in politics, along with their Marxists allies and the potential new generations noticed there was no distinction between the Catholic position and the socialists position, on nearly every social issue, and concluded since the socialists shared the moral point of view with Catholics, then why bother with being a Catholic.
The Church survived in Poland as a protest against the Communist dictatorship. Give them a couple generations in the constant intellectual embrace of western Europe and the Polish Parishes will be empty too.
The prognosis for the Church in Poland is brighter than nearly anywhere else in Europe, since it escaped having its hierarchy dominated by the political elites as in much of the rest of Catholic states on the Continent, or becoming entangled in revolutionary social movements as in Ireland.
Nations with historically republican tendencies like Poland may prove to be the healthiest soil for Catholicism over the long run.