The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life recently released a study on religious affiliation in America.  It found among other things, that "the Roman Catholic Church has lost more members than any faith tradition because of affiliation swapping….While nearly one in three Americans were raised Catholic, fewer than one in four say they're Catholic today.  That means roughly 10% of Americans are ex-Catholics." Thanks to immigration (more than half of recent immigrants to the U.S are Catholic), the Catholic Church still constitutes about 25% of the U.S. population.  One in three Catholics in the U.S. is Hispanic.

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