conuly

Well, here in Austria the vast majority of the population is Catholic (73,6%, according to the CIA factbook), but I don't know of any people that do most of the things you mentioned here; but then religion's been becoming less and less important here for many years. I think most people are either only religious on paper, or if they actually observe any traditions they mostly only do it on special occasions. For example I don't know anyone who gives up meat for all of Lent, but even in my family we traditionally don't eat meat on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. So yeah.

I know that those little booths with screens exist, but in all the years I spent actually being somewhat religious, I've never been inside of one of them. I find them scary, to be honest. All my confessions were comfortable face-to-face conversations with the local priest, not just about what I had done wrong, but how I could improve on my bad habits etc.

I remember learning the rosary in school, but I quickly forgot it again and never own one (as in the item) either. *shrugs*