Emmanuel Macron. Credit: Frederic Legrand COMEO / Shutterstock. Paris, France, May 10, 2017 / 04:44 pm (CNA).- Newly-elected President Emmanuel Macron, according to one of his biographers, embodies a new phenomenon in France known as “zombie Catholicism.”Once among the most Catholic countries in the world, sometimes called the “eldest daughter of the Church,” France has seen serious decline in churchgoing numbers in modern times. While more than 50 percent of people still identify as Catholic, only 5 percent regularly attend Mass. Still, in France’s recent presidential election, a latent Catholic identity in many of France’s citizens proved to be a...