Bishop Erik Varden OCSO has declared that the era of secularisation in Scandinavia has ended because there is "nothing left to secularise", while also heralding that a “tectonic shift” appears to now be unfolding in the opposite direction.
The Norwegian bishop, who reportedly could be a candidate for becoming the new Archbishop of Westminster, made his comments to the German magazine Communio on 19 November.
“In Scandinavia, secularisation has now come to an end. Quite simply because there is actually nothing left to secularise,” said the Trappist-monk-bishop and head of the Territorial Prelature of Trondheim.
