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Despite losses from religious switching, Catholics still make up the majority of the population in a number of countries Pew Research Center analyzed across the globe.
COMMENTARY: Unless and until a critical mass of Europeans addresses their cultural malaise, the continent will continue to flail about seeking a viable future.
The percentage of Catholics in the world’s population increased by 0.1%, reaching 17.8%, based on numbers from 2023.
Though experts see high living costs and low social support as the main drivers of plummeting birth rates, recent polling has shown that many people forgo having children simply because they don’t want them.
Taking the estimated number of Catholics in a country and dividing them by the number of cardinal-electors gives some idea of how well ‘represented’ the Catholic community in that country is.
Africa has registered the greatest growth, by 3.31%.
With a booming and thriving Catholic community, faith hit the jackpot in ‘Sin City.’
The archdiocese will merge nearly a third of its 368 parishes, but the traditionalist Church of the Holy Innocents will remain open.
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