You can find similar examples in France. For example in Alsace churches have a special legal treatment wrt to the rest of France. "Laicité" does not have the s

You can find similar examples in France. For example in Alsace churches have a special legal treatment wrt to the rest of France. "Laicité" does not have the same meaning there as in the rest of France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_law_in_Alsace-Moselle#Religion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_law_in_Alsace-Moselle#Re... And western regions such as Brittany or Vendée traditionally display a strong support for the Catholic church. The influencal newspaper "Ouest-France" is published by an organism that has a "humanist" background in the spirit of the social Catholism advocated by people like Frédéric Ozanam. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_pour_le_soutien_des_principes_de_la_d%C3%A9mocratie_humaniste https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_pour_le_soutien_de... https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholicisme_social https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholicisme_social https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Ozanam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Ozanam