Church statistics are to be treated with great caution. This magazine recently reported that the Catholic Church in Norway has been growing by leaps and bounds.
To a large extent this is broadly true. At the Reformation, Catholicism was totally extirpated in Norway, and it was very slow in coming back. As recently as 1971, there were fewer than 10,000 Catholics in the entire country. Now there are about ten times that number.
Just recently, the Church has opened a new Cathedral in Trondheim, dedicated to Saint Olav, at the consecration of which the Pope was represented by our very own Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor.
