“I needed a good laugh tonight. News flash: The Catholic Church is growing, not shrinking.”
You didn’t study things like math or statistics? Not that there is anything wrong with that...
Repeat to yourself... “There is no hole in my bucket.”
Church membership in 2011 was 1.214 billion (17.5% of the world population),[1] an increase from 437 million in 1950[36] and 654 million in 1970.[37] Since 2010, the rate of increase was 1.5% with a 2.3% increase in Africa and a 0.3% increase in the Americas and Europe. 48.8% of Catholics live in the Americas, 23.5% in Europe, 16.0% in Africa, 10.9% in Asia and 0.8% in Oceania.[1] Catholics represent over half of all Christians.[38]