Abstract
SUMMARY Everywhere one can hear, that Dutch Catholicism is going through a different and according to many people a more serious crisis than anywhere else. This crisis indeed shows many characteristics of its own. But to be able to judge correctly one just has to study the particular development. Dutch Catholicism has gone through during the last four centuries. Not only will one discover that the Dutch situation is different, but also that it had to be different. Whether this also means, that the situation is more serious, remains to be seen. The problems, the church is struggling with, are closely bound up with the questions concerning the relationship between church and world. These questions were again explicitly stated at Vatican II, notwithstanding the fact that they were already holding the attention of the church since the French revolution. Before that time there hardly seemed to exist a problem at all: the church was able to go her way to the world and exercise her influence on it, as an acknowl...
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