I’ve been to Quebec this summer, and there is an interesting article about its secularization, while retaining sentimental attachments to the Roman Catholic Church.
The philosopher Charles Taylor, co-chair of the accra commission, points out that Quebeckers are not the only society of lapsed Catholics to show an attachment to religious traditions without necessarily embracing the doctrine. Millions of non-practising Germans continue to pay confessional taxes, for instance, even though simply declaring themselves as non-Catholics would spare them the expense. The most secular societies in the West also “retain the vestigial public reference to God in public space,†Prof. Taylor writes in A Secular Age .