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**The U.S. Catholic population at the start of 2004, according to the directory, was 67,259,768 -- an increase of some 850,000 over the 66,407,702 reported in 2003. Catholics continue to make up 23 percent of the total U.S. population.**

Nearly one-fourth! No wonder the Bush administration is courting the Catholic vote!

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Nearly one-fourth! No wonder the Bush administration is courting the Catholic vote!

Do you consider this a good or bad thing?

Becky

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Actually, voting Catholics should be courting Bush. He is more in line with Catholic teaching than our "Catholic" senators and congressmen.

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The $64,000 question is this: where are they getting these numbers? Are they counting real, actual people in the pews (from the Status Anuarium of each parish/diocese), or are they counting every hand raised when asked the question: "would you identify yourself as a Catholic". I was in the market research field for a few years and well know that statistics - even if honest - can be skewed.
Secondly: are they counting all the illegal aliens from Central & South America who are overwhelmingly Catholic? In NYC the number of legal US citizens who are church going Catholics is frighteningly small, compared with the vast numbers of the illegals from south of the border
It goes without saying that most of these people contribute little to the church in $$$, and certainly nothing in vocations as they have no long term commitment to this country.
American citizens who are Catholic are contracepting, aborting, and sodomizing themselves to death in the sense that they now have a low birthrate. The ongoing nonsense in the church inspires most of them to stay home on Sunday, not contribute....much less do the young in any serious number want to commit their lives to the church as priests of religious.