Facts are stubborn things and statistical conclusions are confusing for those not trained in analytical techniques.
The Pew study is able to establish a snapshot view of Church affiliation and compare it to an earlier snapshot, nothing more. It was based upon a presumption of a single alpha 1 deflection point in which a person, once changed, remains changed. It ignores the life cycle changes that many Catholics undergo. I know many devout Catholics who, at points in their lives, strayed from the Church, either to agnosticism or other denominations, only to later return. Tis doesn't even include the so-called "Cardiac Catholics" or "Death Bed Catholics". I know of many, many more.
So, to repeat a request to a repeated claim, put up at least one other study confirming your position or admit you don't know what the heck you are talking about.
So the Pew poll doesn't count the Evangelicals who might come back to the Catholic religion as Catholics???
Oh Brother...Well let's not forget to count the Catholic babies who haven't been born yet this year...And the Mexican Catholics who haven't jumped the border yet...
And of course the illegal Mexican Catholics who got shipped back to their own country, because they'll likely find another tunnel or semi trailer before the year's out...
You must be in politics...On the Democratic side...