Up to 2003 at least, Catholics still had social and political disabilities. Catholic students could go to university because the government made money off it but they could not work for a government entity so the Catholic graduates with law and engineering and math etc degrees set themselves up in business, some as consulting companies, and have become pretty much the small business class in the country. Actually the disabilities will have been a blessing to the country once the current government evanesces or dies off or something. A whole class of ambitious, bright, and savvy has grown up outside of the establishment who know their future does not hold any sort of government subsidies or benefits. In the real world some of the government entities have had to hire freemarket consultants to get things done because they can't hire these people directly. The consulting contracts pay much better than government-set wages because the consultants can say this is the price, pay it or you don't get the services.
The communist countries in which Christianity was and is persecuted will be the evangelizers and saviors of the newly apostate and pagan west.