“Whites have been leaving Catholicism for many years, in fact without immigration to maintain the numbers it would be a lot smaller and it is becoming an Hispanic denomination, in other words, the Catholic vote will return to total normalcy pretty soon.”
You’ve lost about 20 percent of your total membership, going from 62 percent of Americans to around 52 percent of Americans in the last 15 years.
Catholicism has remained stable.
Most of the protestant losses are white mainline groups - people like the episcopalians, lutherans, presbyterians.
There’s no evidence of similar losses among White Catholics. If anything, at least in America, there are more white Catholics than before. :)
As I said, you’re antagonizing your own team.
“• Roughly 60 percent of Americans raised as Catholics are no longer practicing Catholics – approximately one
third have left the church entirely, while another third are only nominally Catholic. No denomination in America has gone through more rapid or wrenching change.
• However, the overall share of the population that is Catholic (just under 25 percent) has held steady. For while
“Anglo” Catholics (mainly the grandchildren of European immigrants) have been rushing out of one door, Latino
Catholics have been entering through another.
• For Catholics aged 18-34, 59 percent are Latino. Catholicism in America is well on its way to becoming a
majority-Latino religion”
As you can see on this thread, while Catholics vote for the left, we are not to mention it.
Many of these posts even deny that it happens at all!
These posts do not reflect conservative politics and goals.
Most of the protestant losses are white mainline groups - people like the episcopalians, lutherans, presbyterians.
There’s no evidence of similar losses among White Catholics. If anything, at least in America, there are more white Catholics than before. :)
I believe you're right about Protestants, but your information is way off base regarding "white Catholics":
.... Catholics still account for just under a quarter of the population, as they have for many years. That's because the surge in Hispanic immigration has offset the steady decline of white Catholics. Roughly 2 in 3 Latino immigrants are Catholic, according to Luis Lugo, director of the Pew Forum. He also notes that Hispanic fertility rates are higher than those of white Americans, ensuring more Latino Catholic growth in the United States........Catholics are leaving the faith at four times the rate that newcomers are joining. "Religious change is not simply a function of retention; it's a function of recruitment. It's both sides of the ledger," explains the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life's Greg Smith. "In no other religious groups we looked at did we see this high a ratio people leaving versus joining."
.... from the thread Does the American Catholic Church Have a Numbers Problem?
No other religion in the United States has lost more members to other faiths, or to no faith at all, than Catholicism, according to the new survey released by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. The survey, conducted in 2007, found that 31 percent of Americans were raised Catholic, but less than 25 per cent of them still identify as Catholic. Roughly 10 percent of all Americans have strayed from Catholic roots, the study reported.....
.... from the thread Study: Catholics losing the faith