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Putting these trends together, we can project what the Catholic world will look like in the near future. By 2025, almost three-quarters of Catholics will live in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and that figure does not even count people of the global South living in the North—for instance, the 60 or 70 million U.S. residents who will then claim Latino origin. By 2050, the nations with the largest Catholic populations will be (in descending order): Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, the United States, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, France, Italy, Nigeria and Argentina. All these projections have a sizable margin of error. The inclusion of France, for instance, is dubious when recent surveys show less than half of French people accept even a notional Catholic label. Surely, baptism alone does not make a Catholic for life? But the broad picture is beyond question. By 2050, the Catholic Church will be, overwhelmingly, a Southern institution. The Vatican, arguably, is located two thousand miles too far north....

....In terms of hard data, between 1975 and 1990 alone, the number of Catholic baptisms in Europe fell a staggering 34 percent; the number of weddings dropped by 41 percent.

“The Vatican, arguably, is located two thousand miles too far north....”

When South America was converted did stupid people say the Vatican was located 3,000 miles too far East? Or is it such stupid people today say things like that?

The Vatican may in the future unite with Orthodoxy...which is in the north.

I have no problem with African and Asian and south American Christians...

God works in the least likely places to start a revival of his word.