Well, not everyone. Roman Catholicism isn't losing influence on democrats. Roman Catholicism elected Obama.
White US Catholics move toward GOP, Hispanic Catholics toward Democrats
This is bad news for our country. For every one person who joins the RCC, four Roman Catholics leave the RCC. The RCC in this country is bleeding members. The membership statistics for RCs in this country remain flat because this exodus of Roman Catholics from the RCC is only offset by the huge influx of Hispanics.
What a pantsload.
U.S., Canadian church growth trends persist
BY DAVID YONKE
BLADE RELIGION EDITOR
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Growing churches continue to grow and declining churches continue to decline, according to the latest statistics reported in the 2011 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches.
Virtually all mainline Protestant denominations continue their decades-long drop in membership, while the Catholic Church and most of the larger conservative Protestant bodies are gaining members.
“What the data show is that the trends that have been going on for a long time now continue,” said John Green, director of the Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron. “Mainline Protestant churches continue to decline in membership, and many of the evangelical churches like the Assemblies of God or other conservative denominations like the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, continue to show increases.”
Eileen Lindner, the yearbook’s editor, said in the book that the rate of growth or decline has “generally slowed in comparison to recent years.”
The figures are based on self-reported data collected in 2009 by 227 national church bodies and reported in 2010 to the yearbook, which is published by the New York-based National Council of Churches.
Among the findings in the yearbook that was published this week:
- The Catholic Church, the nation’s largest, reported growth of 0.57 percent to 68,503,456 members.
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, grew 1.42 percent to 6,058,907 members.
- The Assemblies of God grew 0.52 percent to 2,914,669 members.
Mainline Protestant churches reporting a drop in membership included the United Methodist Church, down 1.01 percent to 7,774,931 members; the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, down 1.96 percent to 4,542,868 members; the Presbyterian Church (USA), down 2.61 percent to 2,770,730 members; the Episcopal Church, down 2.48 percent to 2,006,343 members, and the United Church of Christ, down 2.83 percent to 1,080,199 members.
The Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant body, declined 0.42 percent to 16,160,088 members.
Other denominations posting continued growth include Jehovah’s Witnesses, up 2 percent to 1,092,169 members, and the Church of God (Cleveland, Tenn.), up 1.76 percent to 1,053,642 members.
How, in a conclave?
That's funny.
If you're goal is to convert people to the religion of anti-Catholicism, you should try not to be ridiculous and post things semi-believable. Otherwise, people won't take you seriously.
How old are you.I just turned 67 and am liking it.I heard you posted you were 83.God bless You.
With 25% of the electorate, it was the Catholics that elected Obama? What were the Protestants doing? Sitting at home on their thumbs? Protestant voters moved to the Democrats in 2008 over 2004 in about the same percentage as Catholics moved to the Democrats.
This is bad news for our country. For every one person who joins the RCC, four Roman Catholics leave the RCC. The RCC in this country is bleeding members. The membership statistics for RCs in this country remain flat because this exodus of Roman Catholics from the RCC is only offset by the huge influx of Hispanics.
Flat? The Catholic Church is growing. The Protestants are shrinking. In total numbers, as well as percentages. When do you, for instance, anticipate your telephone booth cult to be dropped in the dustbin of history due to lack of members? Your precious OPC is shrinking appreciably - and if all the members were gathered together, they wouldn't make a good crowd at a hockey game. Same as all the rest of Protestant USA.
And if the Catholics were such an enemy of American society, why are all of the Catholics (67%) and all of the Jews (33%) appointed to the US Supreme Court by Protestant Presidents with the result that there are no Protestants on the Supreme Court? Could it be that the current generation of Protestants are simply not up to the task?