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The Catholic Church in a number of European countries stopped processing requests to formally deregister people, due to mass departures after the sexual abuse revelations, which may be what they're referring to.

For instance, https://www.notme.ie




Did the Catholic church in Ireland have a register of people who were Catholic? Which other countries have this?

I've just never heard of such a thing.


Generally record-keeping would be on a parish level, but yes, it's normal for Catholic parishes to keep records on this.


Are you referring to a record of Christenings? Like every church everywhere would keep?




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