The visit of the Pope to Luxembourg and then Belgium in recent days suggests a symbolic outreach by the Catholic Church to a part of Europe that is said to be in the throws of a religious decline.
The import of it is without question, since any visit by a Pope is a serious gesture to a local religious community, and a region at large.
Yet the question is whether the strength of an evangelical sort of Catholicism alive in many parts of the world but suffering a din in parts that says no regularly is still strong enough to survive it.
