Reading a news piece on Pew's new study on religious affiliations in America, I was astounded by this fact:

[R]oughly 10 percent of all Americans are former Catholics.

That's in addition to the 25% of Americans who are currently Catholic.  More though - that means a large percentage of Catholics - especially factoring in the Latino immigrants who have swelled the number of U.S. Catholics - have left the Church to become "former Catholics."

I have a lot of ideas and reflections about this topic, but at the moment, I'm keeping them to myself until I have a chance to give them the benefit of a night's sleep.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 and is filed under Catholicism, Morality. Comments are closed; the conversation is kept as it was.