Here is the full version of my talk presented this summer at the Roman Forum in Gardone, Italy 2016. It was later rewritten after the visit of the Pope to Sweden later that year and will be published in an edited volume in 2017 by Angelico Press.
I am putting here on the blog a slightly revised version of a talk I gave on Long Island in 2011 on the Catholic Church in Sweden seen from the perspective of my own family. When I look at the text I see that the conclusion needs some more work, but I do not have that at present, so I leave it in it its present condition. Perhaps I will come back to it and develop it later, when life calms down (a pious wish perhaps).