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To: OLD REGGIE
"2. This proves a growing Catholic population in both places."

Check the Catholic birth rates in place "B" and get back to me.

7,954 posted on 09/30/2010 4:55:11 PM PDT by Natural Law (A lie is a known untruth expressed as truth. A liar is the one who tells it.)
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To: Natural Law
"2. This proves a growing Catholic population in both places."

Check the Catholic birth rates in place "B" and get back to me.

Aren't you the person who claimed I never answered a question?

One thing you can be certain of is I will never respond to an imperious order from you.

You are the one who brags about the dynamic and growing population of Catholics. It is up to you to back up your claims.

However, I did choose the one nation in the world with the greatest percentage of Catholics for a quick analysis of "Catholic Growth".

Although Portugal is one of the countries with the highest proportion of Catholics in the world, the number of faithful has been falling steadily since the mid-1970s. According to the latest census, carried out in 2001, half a million people said they had become agnostics.

While 84.5 percent of the 10.6 million people in this southern European country identify themselves as Catholics, only 18.7 percent are practicing Catholics.

In addition, just 10.3 percent of the population are regular church goers, and only half of all weddings are held in churches, while divorce and abortion are legal and a same-sex marriage bill has been passed by parliament and is set to be signed into law.

Pope finds Catholic Church losing Portugal as a stronghold - May 2010

8,043 posted on 10/01/2010 8:38:36 AM PDT by OLD REGGIE (I am a Biblical Unitarian?)
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