Abstract
On the basis of the help of Sunday Mass and the practice of Easter Communion considered as suffisant indications, the author brings to our attention of at least a numeric dimunuation of religious practice in Germany. Everywhere those who do practice const itute the minorities who live, he tells us "en deaspora". The author then speaks of how this dimunuation is accompanied in fact by a deepening of religious conv iction of those who do practice, and this despite the graveness of the religious crisis. He ends by giving us several sociological facts which are susceptible to throw some light on the new pastorate, which is founded on certain choices which are more personal than they were in past ages.