30-04-2025
How immigration is fuelling the growth of the Catholic Church in Sweden
This week's episode of Sweden in Focus Extra for Membership+ subscribers features an interview with Magdalena Dahlborg, an editor for a Swedish-language Catholic magazine.
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How did the Catholic Church in Sweden recover from the brink of extinction and what role does it play in Swedish public life today?
The Local's deputy editor Becky Waterton raised these questions in a conversion she had recently with Magdalena Dahlborg about the history of the Catholic Church in Sweden.
Dahlborg is the author of a book on Catholicism and an editor for the Swedish Catholic magazine Signum.
In this episode she talks about the huge role immigrants have played in the growth of the church in recent decades, how important she thinks the church can be for helping immigrants to integrate in Sweden, and why she hopes the Swedish Cardinal Anders Arborelius isn't named as the new pope.
Membership+ subscribers can listen to the interview in the latest episode of Sweden in Focus Extra, out April 30th.
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