Catholicism was punishable in Sweden either by deportations or the death penalty between 1599 and 1781. In 1654, Queen Christina of Sweden abdicated her throne to convert to Catholicism.

A Catholic camp at a farm in Sweden. But Catholics themselves are also experiencing the distrust of some Swedish nationalists, who tend to see Catholicism as an imported religion.

While the Catholic Church in Sweden now has over 100,000 members, far more than the approximately 5,000 members it had in the 1950s, it is still far less than the Church of Sweden, which counts 6. ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Every Catholic convert has their own unique story of the journey that led them to the Catholic Church. For Ulf and Birgitta Ekman, theirs played out in public in secular Sweden ...

VATICAN CITY — Sweden’s first cardinal, Anders Arborelius, is a convert to Catholicism in the overwhelmingly Protestant Scandinavian country, which is home to one of the world’s most ...

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 ...

All Catholic churches in Sweden will pray for mercy for all the victims at Feb. 9 Sunday Mass celebrations, according to Arborelius’ statement. Tags: Catholic News, Pope Francis, ...

LUND, Sweden – Almost 500 years after Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to a church door, setting off more than a century of religious warfare and forever changing the practice of Christiani… ...

VATICAN CITY -- Sweden's first cardinal, Anders Arborelius, is a convert to Catholicism in the overwhelmingly Protestant Scandinavian country, which is home to one of the world's ...