FILE - People wait for the beginning of an Easter Sunday Mass at the Church of the Holy Spirit 'Heilig Geist Kirche' in Munich, Germany, Sunday, April 4, 2021. Another 400,000 people formally left the Catholic Church in Germany last year, though the number was down from a record set in 2022 as church leaders struggle to put a long-running scandal over abuse by clergy behind them and tackle calls for reform, official figures showed Thursday, June 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)