Gay pride in Italy, abortion in Ireland and Poland. So much for catholic values. And they have a Communist pope too.
With all due respect, people living in glass Cathedrals shouldn’t throw stones.
While Ireland and the Pope certainly have problems, did you read the article? It doesn’t sound that the Italians who are in conflict with the secularists and the Pope have opted to counter the Gay Pride stuff by opting to join His Holiness in the Franky Goes to Wittenberg—Relax, Just Do It tour.
Likewise, are you up on Poland and Abortion? https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/08/poland-is-trying-to-make-abortion-dangerous-illegal-and-impossible/
Poland’s negative history on abortion is due primarily to the conclave held in Yalta many years ago, and while Stalin was an ex-seminarian, he had been an Orthodox seminarian, not Catholic (and I don’t hold it against the Orthodox.
And, given your screen name, I would ask what pointers Sweden might pass on to the three countries you named in successfully battling the culture wars.