Thanks for listing so many stories of people swimming the Tiber to get to Rome. There are quite a few.
However, I have to in turn point out that as they were swimming the "Tiber to Rome"...
THEY SHOULD HAVE JUST WALKED ON THE BACKS OF TENS OF MILLIONS OF SOUTH AMERICANS SWIMMING THE OTHER WAY!
By Country...
Why do they leave??
And finally, a summary worth considering...
“There are lies, damned lies and statistics.” Mark Twain
Sorry, there is only one official Catholic agency for statistics and that is
CARA.
CENTER FOR APPLIED RESEARCH IN THE APOSTOLATE
Placing Social Science Research at the Service of the Catholic Church Since 1964
http://cara.georgetown.edu/frequently-requested-church-statistics/
Frequently Requested Church Statistics
CARA gets many inquiries from Church agencies and the media about the numbers for vocations, seminary enrollments, priests and vowed religious, parishes, Mass attendance, schools and the Catholic population. Below are some comparative statistics from 1965. Generally, these data reflect the situation at the beginning of the calendar year listed. The sources for this information include The Official Catholic Directory (OCD), the Vatican’s Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae (ASE), and other CARA research and databases. All data are cross checked as much as possible. For the U.S, the numbers reported here include only figures for those 195 dioceses or eparchies who belong to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. This includes the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and all U.S. military personnel stationed overseas. Entries reading “—” have no data available at this time and “na” is not applicable. Following the U.S. and World data tables below CARA provides link to CARA research about other Frequently Asked Questions. For more information about CARA research and statistics, including our national and parish surveys, demographic studies, trend analyses and projections, and focus groups visit CARA Services. For more information about CARA’s beginings read the following Review of Religious Research article from 1967 by Francis X. Gannon entitled, “Bridging the Research Gap: CARA, Response to Vatican II.” Follow up-to-the-minute updates about CARA research here:
United States Data Over Time
World Data Over Time
Frequently Asked Questions
Anything else is just Protestant wishful thinking
AMDG
“There are lies, damned lies and statistics.” Mark Twain
Sorry, there is only one official Catholic agency for statistics and that is
CARA.
CENTER FOR APPLIED RESEARCH IN THE APOSTOLATE
Placing Social Science Research at the Service of the Catholic Church Since 1964
http://cara.georgetown.edu/frequently-requested-church-statistics/
Frequently Requested Church Statistics
CARA gets many inquiries from Church agencies and the media about the numbers for vocations, seminary enrollments, priests and vowed religious, parishes, Mass attendance, schools and the Catholic population. Below are some comparative statistics from 1965. Generally, these data reflect the situation at the beginning of the calendar year listed. The sources for this information include The Official Catholic Directory (OCD), the Vatican’s Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae (ASE), and other CARA research and databases. All data are cross checked as much as possible. For the U.S, the numbers reported here include only figures for those 195 dioceses or eparchies who belong to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. This includes the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and all U.S. military personnel stationed overseas. Entries reading “—” have no data available at this time and “na” is not applicable. Following the U.S. and World data tables below CARA provides link to CARA research about other Frequently Asked Questions. For more information about CARA research and statistics, including our national and parish surveys, demographic studies, trend analyses and projections, and focus groups visit CARA Services. For more information about CARA’s beginings read the following Review of Religious Research article from 1967 by Francis X. Gannon entitled, “Bridging the Research Gap: CARA, Response to Vatican II.” Follow up-to-the-minute updates about CARA research here:
United States Data Over Time
World Data Over Time
Frequently Asked Questions
Anything else is just Protestant wishful thinking
AMDG