I live in Poland and education actually seems to be getting worse over time, while catholic church is consistently gaining ground. In primary + secondary schools, there's more religion than physics, biology or chemistry. Mathematics is the only science lesson still more common than religion. Technically there should be "ethics" lessons as an alternative, but very few schools actually employ such teachers, citing various excuses.
Recently, there's a push by education minister to let priests become educators (form masters), taking orders from bishop rather than principal. Final exams from catholic religion are not far away.
If you put tax money into religion rather than scientific grants, and you complain your country has very low innovation rating, really, what do you expect? Maybe you could export a new religion?