“Look at the chart. Catholics aren’t trending any better than Protestants.”
Trend line is flat for the Catholics and declining for the Protestants. Are you looking at a different chart than I am?
In any case, the result is clear. Ex-protestants are becoming a serious problem for America.
I see a 1% change for Catholics and a 5% change for Protestants.
Because of the fact that Catholicism is more common than Protestantism in S. America, Asia, and Africa, than Protestantism, it is fairly apparent that if not for immigrants (legal or otherwise), I believe the change would be as dramatic, if not more, for Catholics.
In any case, the result is clear. Ex-protestants are becoming a serious problem for America.
Agreed.
American born Catholics are leaving Catholicism in massive numbers, it is immigration of millions of Catholics that sustains the flat line of little decline.
Importing 10s of millions of Catholics and their offspring would normally have increased the percentage of Catholics, not reduced it.
""Catholics were 22% of the U.S. adult population in 1948, according to Gallup's estimates. That percentage rose over the years and reached its high point in the 1970s and 1980s, when the U.S. population was nearly 30% Catholic. In the last several years, Gallup's estimate of the percentage Catholic has been 22% to 23%.""