[OLD REGGIE]

All the data that I've seen has put the Catholic percentage of the total population at about the 24% level for many decades, and that means that as the country has grown in population, so has the Church, along with it.

Considering the mainly Catholic 20-30 million Latin American immigrants to the United States in the last two decades the Catholic Church has lost an alarming number of members.

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But on Saturday, Yang and fellow parishioners at St. Vincent de Paul learned it is on a list of 21 Catholic churches around the Twin Cities metro area that the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis intend to close.

The move comes amid a drop in the number of priests, a decline in church attendance and an aging Catholic population that has migrated in large numbers to the suburbs.

http://kstp.com/news/stories/S1794029.shtml?cat=127

[MarkBsnr]

Correct. I cannot argue with the numbers, yet overall, the percentage, even as the country has grown in population, has remained stable.