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Mexican Catholics Lose Religion in the USA
Breitbart ^ | 10 Dec 2014 | Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.

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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To: NKP_Vet
You’re right, just opinions because all those protestants that voted for OBama, especially the 99% of blacks that voted for him are fans of abortion and they all go to church. Baptists, methodists, episcopalians and a bunch more protestant “churches” all believe in selective abortion. Only the Catholic CHurch has no abortion for any reason. Now put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Wow sir you are gushing with such discourse. I don't smoke a pipe no thank you.

And no, you have no figures to show a majority or even a plurality of Evangelicals are for selective abortions. Try to find an argument with someone who adhere's to your pipe dream model. Life begins at conception. God forms us in the womb and knows us before.

61 posted on 12/17/2014 11:49:36 AM PST by redleghunter (But let your word 'yes be 'yes,' and your 'no be 'no.' Anything more than this is from the evil one.)
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To: Elsie

As always, you completely screw up your Catholic theology. Catholics are not robots forced to listen to sermons from priests who may not be speaking truthfully. I assume you’re projecting.


62 posted on 12/17/2014 12:17:16 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

Find a missal that has a translation on the other side of the page. The Mass is not difficult to understand in Latin once you’ve done it for a while.


63 posted on 12/17/2014 12:22:32 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: mrobisr
Come to a border State and sit outside a Cath and Prot church and tell me which one has what. These comments actually have me laughing they are so ridiculous.

But once you believe the RC lie, you can make up reality as you go along.

64 posted on 12/17/2014 12:40:20 PM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: miss marmelstein

We do watch Mass on a regular basis on ETWN and much of it is Latin.

I agree that a Latin Mass is preferable to political advocacy in Church any day of the week.


65 posted on 12/17/2014 12:41:26 PM PST by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: NKP_Vet
The word “Catholic” means universal, and that is really what the Catholic Church is—a universal body of believers

In higher criticism and evolution.

66 posted on 12/17/2014 1:02:24 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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To: miss marmelstein
Catholics are not robots forced to listen to sermons from priests who may not be speaking truthfully.

Uh...

I understand how the Bereans in the Bible knew; but just HOW would YOU know this??

67 posted on 12/17/2014 1:18:02 PM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: miss marmelstein
Find a missal that has a translation on the other side of the page. The Mass is not difficult to understand in Latin once you’ve done it for a while.

Then it would appear one does not NEED the Latin.

68 posted on 12/17/2014 1:19:20 PM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

At St. Agnes, where I attend, the Tridentine Mass on Sunday has a sermon - and it’s usually a priest putting down abortion, illegal immigration and supporting the death penalty!


69 posted on 12/17/2014 1:22:34 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: Elsie

I asked once that you announce your presence with a cow bell. That said, I rarely understand what the hell you’re saying.


70 posted on 12/17/2014 1:23:44 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: Vigilanteman; redleghunter
Church attendance is a far better predictor of voting behavior than the Catholic vs. Protestant meme. Cafeteria Catholics vote like mainline Protestants of the C&E variety. Regular mass attending Catholics vote like regular church attending Protestants.

"Protestant" is too broadly defined to be very meaningful, and i have not saved much on weekly Prots, but evangelicals have the highest attendance rate, and even mass attending Catholics are less conservative than they.

Church attendance [2002-2005]: Evangelicals at approx. 60 percent showed the highest percentage of those who reported they attended services weekly or almost weekly, with 30% going more than once a week. Catholics were at 45 percent (9% more than once a week), and Jews 15 percent. Gallup poll. between 2002 and 2005. http://www.christianpost.com/article/20060418/weekly-attendance-highest-among-Evangelical-churches.htm

A Catholic survey reported that 4 percent of US Catholics described themselves as “very” involved in parish or religious activities other than attending Mass, and 11% as “somewhat involved, and 64% as “not involved at all.” Among weekly (or more) attendees (approx 22% of adult Catholics), 13% were very” involved, 29% “somewhat involved and 25% not involved at all.” http://cara.georgetown.edu/CARAServices/FRStats/devotionpractice.pdf

Christian church attendance is between 1 ½ and 2 times higher in the South and the Midwest than it is in the West and the Northeast [the latter two have the highest percentage of Catholics]. http://www.theamericanchurch.org/facts/8.htm; http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2007/03/01/how-many-americans-attend-church-each

Among those who converted to a Christian denomination, 42% of of those to Roman Catholicism, 43% of Episcopalian converts, 44% of those to Lutheranism, 48% of those to Methodism, 50% of those to the Presbyterian church, 60% of Baptist converts, 60% of Non-denominational converts, and 73% of of converts to Pentecostal churches reported they attend services weekly. http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=482

39 percent of Catholics affirmed not attending church is a sin, versus 23 percent of Protestants. Ellison Research, March 11, 2008 http://ellisonresearch.com/releases/20080311.htm http://www.christianpost.com/article/20080312/study-behaviors-americans-consider-sinful.htm

A 2008 Catholic commissioned survey of adult Catholics reported 68% of Catholics affirmed you could be a good Catholic without going to Mass every Sunday, and 55% thought of themselves as good Catholics. 77% of Catholics agreed they were proud to be Catholic, (85% of weekly attendees) and 61% agreed that sacraments were essential to their faith (83% of weekly attendees). 2008 poll of 1,007 self-identified adult Catholics by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University; http://cara.georgetown.edu/beliefattitude.pdf

43% of Catholics overall (and 36% of weekly attendees) affirmed they look to Catholic teachings and statements made the pope and bishops to form their conscience on what is morally acceptable . ^

36% of weekly attendees affirmed their Catholic faith was the most important part of their life, 39% said it was “among the most important.” ^

34% of weekly Mass attending Catholics are Democrats, and an additional 19% are not affiliated with a party but lean toward the Democrats (53% identifying or leaning as Democrats). 28% of weekly attenders are Republicans and an additional 17% lean toward being a Republican (43 percent identifying or leaning as Republicans). Catholics who attend Mass less than weekly are even more likely to be a Democrat rather than a Republican. http://cara.georgetown.edu/NewsandPress/PressReleases/pr061808.pdf

Exit polls in 2008 reported that weekly churchgoing Catholics voted for John McCain over Barack Obama, by just 50 percent to 49 percent.http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/churchgoing_catholics_chose_mccain_over_obama/

Weekly Protestant church attendees voted for McCain over Barack Obama 66 to 32 percent. ^

Weekly Church attendees (28% of the electorate) voted 57%/39% Romney/Obama; more than weekly (14% of the electorate) voted 63%/36% and “never” attendees (17% of the electorate) were at 34%/62% Romney/Obama. - http://www.pewforum.org/Politics-and-Elections/How-the-Faithful-Voted-2012-Preliminary-Exit-Poll-Analysis.aspx

Evangelicals supported Mr. Romney 81% to 17% over Mr. Obama (a smaller percentage for the Republican candidate than in previous years). Born again Christians who are not evangelicals supported Romney 56% to 43% over the incumbent. Catholics supported Mr. Obama by 57% to 42% — the largest margin since Bill Clinton topped Bob Dole by 21 points in 1996. Protestant overall voted 57% to 42% in favor of Mr. Romney. ^

A 2002 nationwide poll of 1,854 priests in the United States and Puerto Rico reported that 30% of Roman Catholic priests described themselves as Liberal, 28% as Conservative, and 37% as Moderate in their Religious ideology. 53 percent responded that they thought it always was a sin for unmarried people to have sexual relations; 32 percent that is often was, and 9 percent seldom/never. However, nearly four in 10 younger priests in 2002 described themselves as conservative, and were more likely to regard as "always a sin" such acts as premarital sex, abortion, artificial birth control, homosexual relations, etc., and three-fourths said they were more religiously orthodox than their older counterparts. Los Angeles Times (extensive) nationwide survey (2002). http://www.bishop-accountability.org/resources/resource-files/reports/LAT-Priest-Survey.pdf http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_2_39/ai_94129129/pg_2

We know this because my wife and I live in an area which is slightly more Catholic and have served as poll watchers. Nuns in the local order are on our GOP friendly list.

Personal stories from one area presented as a fact do not trumps national surveys.

71 posted on 12/17/2014 3:24:48 PM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: NKP_Vet

My savior Yeshua had nothing to do with Constantine’s cult.

He denounced such practices completely in his Earthly ministry.

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72 posted on 12/17/2014 6:12:12 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: miss marmelstein; Elsie

>> “ That said, I rarely understand what the hell you’re saying.” <<

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That’s OK, neither does he!

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73 posted on 12/17/2014 6:13:46 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: miss marmelstein
That said, I rarely understand what the hell you’re saying.

You're Catholic; right?

74 posted on 12/18/2014 10:22:16 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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