Posted on 02/27/2014 12:56:45 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
Of course it is a Catholic nation, in 1970 it was at 96%, in 1998 the 1998 Catholic Almanac was listing it as 95.30 Catholic.
The vast majority of Hispanics in America are Catholic, the overwhelming percentage of foreign born Hispanics are Catholic.
We all know this, why would you be making such silly claims, or trying to convince us that America is being flooded with Evangelical immigration?
“”During the 1920s and 1930s Los Angeles was a bastion of Anglo Protestantism, reflecting the values of Midwestern parishioners who had been carried to the Southland on the Southern Pacific Railroad. Well into the 1970s, Protestant denominational leaders enjoyed comfortable, influential ties with the city is still-strong “downtown business
establishment,” which itself was largely Protestant.
The Immigration Act of 1965, however, created the condition for a radically different religious future for the City of Angels-a future that would anoint Roman Catholicism as the area’s dominant religious group. Today Roman Catholicism is the single largest faith tradition in Los Angeles County, with 294 parishes and 3,631,368 adherents.
Among Christians, 71% are Catholics. Between 1980 and 1997, Roman Catholicism experienced a 36% growth.
According to Louis Velasquez, director of the Los Angeles Archdiocese Office of Hispanic Ministry, approximately 70% of Roman Catholics in Los Angeles County are Latino, mostly immigrants from Mexico and Central America.
Father Gregory Courier, speaking for the three-county Los Angeles Archdiocese, suggests that as many as one million undocumented immigrant Catholics probably remain uncounted.””
This guy is traveling through a societal tunnel far longer than he thought. I didn’t think the homo population was very large looking at all the children.
Ya. Sad.
I am reminded of Sodom and Gomorrah.
A leftist front group that apparently has no trouble discriminating against Christians.
They’re lawyers. Most Mexicans would very much disagree with them.
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