South and central Americans immigrants identify themselves as Catholics culturally, but they also come from a tradition of marxist hatred of their church given Catholic history. American-American catholics don’t have a history of church abuse of power like the foreigners do because of the constitution.
I am not surprised that a larger percentage of Catholics are faithless and rebellous in surveys. That will increase as people from Central and South American roots increases. They came to America from oppressive foreign lands in which the Catholic church played a dark part.
Check out the heavily Roman Catholic area on Northwest Illinois and tri-State area. The same demographic as the heavily populated Roman Catholic Northeast.
Also the Latinos have been coming illegally in the US for decades. Like I said, the shift is internal due to politics and culture sanctioning the malignant behavior(s).
by Sara “I am not surprised that a larger percentage of Catholics are faithless and rebellous in surveys. That will increase as people from Central and South American roots increases. They came to America from oppressive foreign lands in which the Catholic church played a dark part.”
You may want to clear up your understanding of Catholic history in Mexico and South and Central America in general. A good book would be “Blood Drenched Alters” by Kelly and read up on the Chritiada covered in a recent movie called “For the Greater Glory”