[Salvation]

I Will Give You Shepherds: Addressing the Priest Shortage

[Salvation]

**Baptized Catholics represent 17.4% of the world's population, with the highest concentration found in the Americas — where 49.4 percent of the people are Catholic.**

Had any of you seen this statistic before? I can see that with South and Central America it could be accurate, but I would hesitate to say that 49.4 percent of the people in North America were Catholic.

Maybe 33%

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What do you think?