Non-participation in catholic religion classes in Italy – Florence and Bologna as the two most secular cities

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  1. In the map **THE DARKER, THE LESS PARTICIPATION**

    Here’s the whole data (with the detail of every italian province/city): [https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/27185742/](https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/27185742/)

    **Context**

    In Italy, the concordat between Italy and the Catholic Church provides for 1-2 optional hours per week of teaching of the catholic religion in every school, from primary to high schools.

    Participation was always very high in the 20th century, then began to decline and in the 2024/25 school year non-participation reached over 1 million people with 17.7%, but with very strong contrasts within the country.

    Among big cities, Florence/Firenze (51%) and Bologna (47%) stand out for non-participation. On the other hand, Southern Italy has non-participation between 3-5%.

  3. Also the map of gdp, income, quality of life. Coincidentally. 

  5. Per favore espropriamo il vaticano di ogni bene per finanziare infrastrutture e servizi

  6. Having recently spent time in Bologna and Florence, walking between the pair on the Via Degli Dei, I’m not surprised. I’ve rarely seen more Gaza and Pride flags in one space and I live in a left wing progressive part of England (central Manchester).

  8. if it is not mandatory to participate, any child and ado would miss the class to have time for fun, for sure

  10. I always liked north of Italy better, now I understand why 🙂

  11. This is partly due to the bigger number of immigrants in the northern regions.

  13. Well one would have to look at whether this is accounting for the students that come from immigrant backgrounds or not. If a region has higher immigration rates from Africa / Asia then it is unlikely that you’d be comparing apples with apples if you put it against a region with lower immigration rates from the same areas.

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