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If one takes into account all the cases where people have latae sententiae excommunicated themselves from the church, I'd say the numbers of "actual practicing Catholics" are considerably less than 100 million (100,000,000) worldwide.

If you think that well over 92% of Catholics are so purposefully awful in practicing their religion that they are no longer members of the body of Christ, then I suggest you work on, for one thing, charity.

If one takes into account all the cases where people have latae sententiae excommunicated themselves from the church, I’d say the numbers of “actual practicing Catholics” are considerably less than 100 million (100,000,000) worldwide.

If you think that well over 92% of Catholics are so purposefully awful in practicing their religion that they are no longer members of the body of Christ, then I suggest you work on, for one thing, charity.

Agreed,Yo: Alex comes off like a petulant teen-ager who can’t wait to shoot his mouth off....

If you think that well over 92% of Catholics are so purposefully awful in practicing their religion that they are no longer members of the body of Christ, then I suggest you work on, for one thing, charity.

I'm not the one judging them. Catholics have told us that the more often a Catholic attends mass, the more likely said person is a faithful, practicing i.e. "real" Catholic and not just a self-professing "cafeteria" Catholic. I've also seen studies that show only 10% or so of "self-professing" Catholics actually attend mass weekly. So when you put the two together, the number of "real Catholics" in this country is no higher than 7 million (i.e. one tenth of the 70 million or so that the USCCB reports).

The exit polls for the last two presidential elections found that only 25% of the highest "weekly attending" religious group voted for Obama. I'm giving "real" Catholics the benefit of the doubt on this one, and crediting the 7 million with that voting percent. Assuming that a quarter of the 7 million weekly-attending Catholics voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012, said voting act automatically excommunicates them, for unrepentingly supporting a pro-abortion politician. Thus, the 7 million now drops to roughly 5.5 million "real" Catholics here in the USA, or just 7.8 percent of the starting number.

Admittedly, that's the USA. I'm extrapolating the 7.8 percent onto the global numbers, unless someone really wants to argue that the mess that is Latin America is produced by faithful, practicing Catholics.