CNS STORY: Survey finds one-tenth of Americans used to be Catholic

A detailed new study reported by CNS and conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has revealed that the United States is on the verge of becoming a "minority Protestant country." Here is a brief snippet from the study:

Though the Catholic proportion of the population has held steady at one fourth of the U.S. population, approximately one-third of the survey respondents who were raised Catholic no longer describe themselves as Catholic. According to the Pew Forum report, this means around ten percent of all Americans are former Catholics.

Though converts have offset some of the numbers of Catholics who have left the Church, the disproportionately high number of Catholics among immigrants is most responsible for keeping the Catholic population stable. Latinos now account for 45 percent of American Catholics aged 18-29.

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