Bohumil PetrikCardinal Willem Eijk, shown speaking at a press conference at Friezenkerk, the Dutch Church near St. Peter’s Square, on Oct. 23, 2015, told the Register this mont, ‘Christ has become a virtually unknown figure to most Dutch people today.’
This national event that took place autonomously in the aftermath of Vatican II and which is compared by commentators to the German Synodal Path is considered to have been a catalyst for the massive de-Christianization of the country in recent decades.