Is France Roman catholic

Answer 1

Most of France is Roman Catholic, but in name only. Most are not considered Catholic by the Church because they do not accept all the doctrines of the Church.

Catholic AnswerFirst of all, it's just Catholic, not Roman Catholic. Roman is an epithet first commonly used in England after the protestant revolt to describe the Catholic Church. It is never used by the official Catholic Church.

Secondly, as of 2008 - the only statistics of that kind available for the last ten years, between 83 and 88% of the French self-reported being "Catholic". HOWEVER, in 1980, only 15% of those attended weekly Mass, in 2000, only 12%, and as of 2002, only 8% attended weekly Mass. To anyone who understands Catholicism in only a cursory fashion, the first thing that they know is that to be a Catholic, in good standing, one must attend Mass, at least every Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation. Failure to attend Mass, even one Sunday, without a good reason, is a mortal sin. One mortal sin (unrepented, and unconfessed) condemns a person to hell for eternity. If you are not doing that you are best a "cultural" Catholic, which means you may have been baptized in the Catholic Church but you are not a practicing Christian by any stretch of an over active imagination.

Answer 2

Estimates vary and the French Government does not collect official statistics on religion. A variety of estimates is presented below:

• According to the CIA Factbook, 85 - 90 per cent of the population claim to be Christian (Roman Catholic 83-88 percent, Protestant 2 percent).
• The United States Department of State International Religious Freedom Report 2006 cites a poll taken in December 2004, in which 64.3 percent of the respondents indicated they were Catholic, even if they never attended religious services, while a further 1.9 per cent indicated they were Protestant. The report also states that while the vast majority of the population is nominally Roman Catholic, according to one member of the Catholic hierarchy only 8 per cent of the population are practising Catholics.
  

• According to a 2011 survey by Ipsos MORI 45% of the French are Christians (almost all Roman Catholics), 35% are irreligious, atheistor agnostic, 3% are Muslims, 1% are Buddhists, 6% adhere to unspecified other religions, and 10% did not give an answer to the question.
  

Active Christians, as measured by factors such as church attendance, are fewer than 10 per cent of the French population.

Answer 3

Yes, most French are Roman Catholic. However, France is like the U.S., with freedom of religion. No one religion is taught in schools and people have the right to choose their own religion.

Answer 4

According to the 2013 CIA Factbook, the population of France was 66.6 million, 64% of whom (42,624,000) are Catholic.

Answer 5

83% people in France are Roman Catholics.

Answer 6

yes