Posted on 12/15/2014 8:08:30 AM PST by Alex Murphy
New evidence from the Pew Research Center reveals that Mexican Catholics who emigrate to the United States are considerably less religious than their counterparts who remain in Mexico.
A hefty majority of US Hispanics are of Mexican descent (64%), according to US Census Bureau statistics, and about a third of Mexican Americans were born in Mexico and immigrated into the US. Mexican Americans, however, exhibit differences both in religious affiliation and in doctrinal belief as compared with Catholics living in Mexico.
Though the Pew study does not explore the reasons Mexican Catholics leave the Church when emigrating to the US, it does offer statistics that show a substantial decline of Catholic affiliation. While 81% of Mexicans identify themselves as Catholics, the number drops to 61% of Mexican Americans—a difference of 20%, or some four million persons, in real terms.
Some have theorized that the drop-off may be due in part to inadequate attention to Hispanic Catholics in US parishes. A recent Boston College study found that only a quarter of US Catholic parishes have programs aimed at Hispanics, despite the fact that they make up about 40 percent of the approximately 78 million Catholics in the country. About six percent of all Masses in the United States are now celebrated in Spanish.
Of those Mexican American Catholics who leave the Church, some become Protestants and others lose any religious affiliation whatsoever. Percentagewise, there are twice as many Mexican American Protestants as Mexican Protestants and 17% of Mexican Americans claim no religious affiliation, compared with only 7% of Mexicans in this category.
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Not no religion; the religion of Godless Liberalism.
When Government provides all your needs what do you need God for?
I remember the phrase “Godless communists”
It’s Godless democrats now. (2012 democrat convention where they verbally denounced God)
And don't doubt that God will bring vengeance upon them in His own time and way as He did to the Jews in biblical times. Its the collateral damage that scares me.
I can see why many people get frustrated with attending Mass.
I continue to attend Mass twice a week, but I am sick of all of the politics....especially the Church’s insistence that we accept and tolerate illegal immigration. I hear this constantly. Also they are now actively promoting driver’s licenses for illegal aliens. I hear this in church all of the time. It goes in one ear and out the other. I can see why a lot of people don’t like going to Mass anymore. Our new Pope and our archdiocese are very liberal.
When they get here they stop praying for work, a residence, healthcare, food, an Obamaphone and education for their children, because Uncle Sam takes care of all that.
Try to find another church. Try to find a Tridentine Mass or weekly Masses where there are no sermons. Don’t put up with sermons you disagree with.
I suppose that is an option. I wish I knew Latin. That subject should have never been removed from public school curriculum IMHO.
But then again I could attend Mass in Spanish and therefore would not understand the homily anyways.
Find a different church.
I have never heard that at my church.
And a pox on those so-called clerics who encourage people to openly sin in these actions.
Mexican Catholicism has some interesting rituals. I’ve seen women walk on their knees to pray to an unnamed saint (mummified corpse supposedly a Christian from Roman catacombs) on display in a cathedral in a glass case.
Years ago, foreign exchange students would be taken in by host families to work at Disneyland for the summer, and they would buy used cars, get Californa driving licenses, and return home after the summer.
I was a host, and ... we're still in touch.
Salvation, please come to Southern CA, specifically the LA Archdiocese. It is VERY liberal here. It is estimated that the LA Archdiocese is now 70% Hispanic. Obviously the Church is pandering to its base and I do understand it. But illegal immigration is wrong and should not be advocated in any church IMHO. I go to Church to hear Scripture and practice my faith. I don’t go for political lectures.
This is an interesting topic and article, but not a particularly good article m
First off it is titled Mexicans lose religion, then it then states “some become Protestants”.
That’s not losing religion, it is in fact a good thing.
The other empty statistic is that 17% of Mexicans in the US have no religion compared to 7% in Mexico. It does not, though, examine if the 17% is due to selective bias in that perhaps a larger percentage of non-religious are in the group that chooses to go to the US.
It may not be that Mexicans become less religious in the US, but that a disproportionate number of non-religious Mexicans come. That could make sense given that many break the law to come.
Etc...
I do think that Mexican kids are subject to same same liberal propaganda schooling all kids get now and that would have something with loss of religious belief.
“New evidence from the Pew Research Center reveals that Mexican Catholics who emigrate to the United States are considerably less religious than their counterparts who remain in Mexico.”
When coming from a country where a single Christian denomination overwhelmingly dominates, it just may be that many who come from such country’s to the U.S. were, in the home country, more going-along-to-get-along followers than dedicated believers. If that’s true, their seemingly altered religious commitment to the Catholic church may not be altered at all - they may not have been that committed in the first place.
Illegal immigrants are a self-selected group, all of whom decided to break the law in order to take advantage of what the U.S. had to offer. As a result, they naturally have different characteristics, such as compromised morality, higher criminality and lower religiosity, than their fellow Mexicans who chose to be law abiding.
Contrast this group with the relative success of those who immigrated legally and generally adopt the cultural values of their adopted country. That's what Pew should be measuring.
Desperate people do desperate things, and I see our current “president” as (given a soon-to-be Republican House and Senate) being an extraordinarily desperate person.
Precisely. Now why would the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops be attracted to, and courting, and enticing this particular group of people to continue breaking the law?
As I recall, Catholicism has always had some form of this—a lot of churches have relics on display—the remains of saints or martyrs typically.
Officially, the Church does not condone the worship of relics (Jerome).
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