It is worthless as proof of anything. Wishful thinking maybe?
A steep decline in the number of Brazilian Catholics may be stabilizing after decades of losses, according to a survey released just days before Pope Benedict XVI's arrival in the world's largest Roman Catholic country.
MAY be stabilizing????????????? Can you do better than this?
But Silvia Fernandes, a sociologist with Rio de Janeiro's Federal Rural University, said it will be impossible to verify the foundation's numbers until the results of Brazil's 2010 census are available.
"We have had the same trend for the past 40 years," Fernandes said. "It's unlikely we would see such a sudden change."
Grasping at straws is not a very scholarly approach.