This may seem like a dumb question...but....is everyone in Italy Catholic?

Question

I'm Catholic, but not in Italy. xP

Answer 1

Most are, yes.

Answer 2

As said by other users, no. 80% of Italians do consider themselves as "Catholic", if you ask them, but the only reason is "since I'm born in Italy". Actually just 30% of Italians are Catholic "for real" and less than 10% are practicing, mainly (of course not only) older people.
Italy is a secular Country, it seems there are more concern about religion between politicians than between the people...
The fact the Vatican is inside Rome doesn't matter,
actully most Italians are annoyed by the Vatican recently increase in trying to affect Italian politics and society.

Answer 3

You can find the official stat on wikipedia or something, but I think it's + 90%.

However, Italians are not devout Catholics, they are culturally and traditionally Catholic. Even many of the Italians that go to church do not have strong faith in religion. They go because that is what Italians have always done.

Answer 4

No, there are also many Jews, Protestants, and Muslims. The fact that the Vatican lies in Italy would suggest that all Italians are Catholic, but it is not so.

Answer 5

i'm a Catholic, and that i've got by no ability heard everybody call me a cannibal or a witch; yet i think of dissimilar people diss our faith because of the way the church dealt with the intercourse abuse scandal. The bishops knew that there have been pedophiles serving as monks, yet they did no longer do something approximately it or notify the law enforcement officers because of the fact they did no longer choose the church to look undesirable. This improve right into a unfavourable ingredient because of the fact many toddlers have been molested as a effect; and the church wound up looking worse than ever. although, this improve right into a mistake made by ability of particular bishops, and has no longer something to do with Catholic dogma or the religion itself- merely the egos of particular people who occurred to be in potential on the incorrect time.

Answer 6

a substantial majority of italians are catholic - though many are very lax about their faith.

but italy has been unusually tolerant of religious minorities for most of its history so there are many more jews than you will find in germany or austria, large muslim communities (especially in the northern industrial towns), sikhs, mormons, protestant christians ... almost any denomination you can think of.

there are also many atheists in italy. italian society is traditionally more polarised politically than most countries. the slightly greater number of conservatives are usually practising catholics (and often very strict in their observance) but the very large communist minority are often also effective (and sometimes proselytising) atheists.

Answer 7

About 90 %

Answer 8

Nope, not all of them. I think the majority are, but there are members of other religions in Italy too.

Answer 9

No.

According to the CIA World Factbook, Italy is 90% Catholic.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/it.html

With love in Christ.

Answer 10

No, there are Jehovah's Witnesses there. We are in every country. Here's the statistics for Europe in 2006:

EUROPE

Number of lands: 46

Population: 731,536,437

Number of publishers: 1,498,142

Number of Bible studies: 717,797

Answer 11

most italians are catholic, but not very religious. its more of a cultural thing.