Catholicism in the Dutch Netherlands Amsterdam Holland

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What are the Catholics like over there? . . Are they traditional,radical,Old-Style etc.
 
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What are the Catholics like over there? . . Are they traditional,radical,Old-Style etc.
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Before V.II, the Dutch were reknown for their ardent fervor and enlightened Faith. Then, they went to the opposite, with much contestation. Pope John Paul II went directly there to face the storm.

From then on, I know nothing, though I visited Netherlands twice. Better, 40 times! My kids were very small and in a petrol station exactly on the border Belgium/Holland, we played going from Belgium to Holand and vice versa with one foot in one country and the other foot in the other country. 40 times. Maybe more. Good old times when such trivia was such much fun.
 
Cool - wouldn’t there also be a reformed protestant church? . .
 
Catholicism in the Netherlands, and especially in Amsterdam, is virtually non-existent. The Church there is not in good shape.

If you live in Amsterdam, I would check out St. Agnes Church, it’s a bit southwest of Vondelpark. Fyi - it’s run by the FSSP so all the Masses are according to the usus antiquor. (by the way, Cardinal Burke is celebrating a Pontifical Mass there I think in October).

I was just in Amsterdam this summer, and stopped in St. Nicolas Church right near the big train station only to find an abuse-laden Mass, a most ugly table altar in use instead of the (still intact) and absolutely gorgeous high altar…and you wonder where all the people went.
 
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