Oh yeah Axelrod — and your boss can issue a fatwa against one of the largest Christian churches in the country, but he’s not divisive at all. Not at all. Unbelievable.
One of, The Roman Catholic Church is the LARGEST denomination in the Country. There are 68,503,456 registered Catholics in the United States (22% of the US population) according to the American Bishops’ count in their Official Catholic Directory 2010.
The Roman Catholic Church is also the largest Religious institution in the World. Total church membership (both lay and clerical) in 2007 was 1.147 billion people. It is estimated to be larger than 1.2 Billion today.
This isn’t the kind of institution that you wanrt to pick a public fight with.