How many Catholics do you think there are?

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Ryniev:
The best thing about the midwest is that it is sparcely populated. I love raising my kids here. It wouldn’t be the same with an extra 103 billion people. 😛
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I can totally sympathize with you. My home is in south central PA. AKA the Pennsylvania Dutch Country. It is, well, was so nice. It used to be very rural, but lately greedy developers have been building neighborhoods like crazy. 😦 I hope you never have to experience that. I sometimes want to move out West, but I don’t think I could bring myself to doing it since this still feels like “home.”
 
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JSmitty2005:
I can totally sympathize with you. My home is in south central PA. AKA the Pennsylvania Dutch Country. It is, well, was so nice. It used to be very rural, but lately greedy developers have been building neighborhoods like crazy. 😦 I hope you never have to experience that. I sometimes want to move out West, but I don’t think I could bring myself to doing it since this still feels like “home.”
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Well we live near St. Louis so it’s already pretty developed but I would never want to live in New York City or LA with kids. I just can’t imagine. I just like the fact that the midwest is “uncool” and not hugely populated. Btw, one of my good friends is from Bozeman, MT and what the transplanted Californians are doing there is a crime IMO. The locals can hardly afford to live there anymore.
 
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Ryniev:
Btw, one of my good friends is from Bozeman, MT and what the transplanted Californians are doing there is a crime IMO. The locals can hardly afford to live there anymore.
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Yeah, it’s not cool. It sounds like the same thing that the rich translplanted “Baltimorons” are doing here. Haha! Hope no one on here’s from Baltimore, but that’s definitely the name they’ve made for themselves around these parts. 😛
 
Anyways, back to the thread topic. On a tape by Steve Ray, he said that if you take all the Protestant & Orthodox that they don’t even make half the number of Catholics. I think, however, that this is an outdated statistic.
 
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puzzleannie:
In my parish? about half.
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Ha! In my parish about…30% I would guess actually know their faith. Most of them went to “Catholic” schools yet. :confused: Unbelievable! 😦
 
I would like to see statistics on the number of those 1 billion Catholics who attend Mass weekly. I’ve seen them in the past but can’t remember where. That seems to be an easy way to sort CINOs from practicing Catholics. If you want to know the number of Catholics who believe everything the Church teaches and follow the doctrines, I fear the number is VERY small. I think I read something like 80% of Catholics contracept.
 
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MooCowSteph:
If you want to know the number of Catholics who believe everything the Church teaches and follow the doctrines, I fear the number is VERY small. I think I read something like 80% of Catholics contracept.
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Very small indeed. I would venture to guess that about no more than 10% whole-heartedly submit to the Church’s authority. 😦
 
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JSmitty2005:
Very small indeed. I would venture to guess that about no more than 10% whole-heartedly submit to the Church’s authority. 😦
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Yes, if we are talking worldwide. But in the US, I daresay, it may be a much smaller number than that! 😦
 
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MooCowSteph:
I would like to see statistics on the number of those 1 billion Catholics who attend Mass weekly. I’ve seen them in the past but can’t remember where. That seems to be an easy way to sort CINOs from practicing Catholics. If you want to know the number of Catholics who believe everything the Church teaches and follow the doctrines, I fear the number is VERY small. I think I read something like 80% of Catholics contracept.
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In the United States, more than 90% of Catholics use some form of ABC at some time in their life. According to the USCCB, it is likely that no more than 2-3% of Catholic use NFP.

There are many sources of statistics, both Catholic and secular, that demonstrate mass dissent (no pun intended) in many Catholic disciplines.

As a former Catholic, I am always amazed that people so outside Catholic teaching continue to call themselves Catholic. I’m more Catholic than a lot of these people, but know that I can’t honestly call myself Catholic.

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According to the Church there are about 2 billion Catholics
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Really!?

I always go for 1.1 billion (which when you think about it is very impressive that is one sixth of the population of the world). However when I watched TV around the time of JPII’s funeral, many sources were claiming other wise, some from under 1 billion and some from up to 1 and a half billion. The mind boggles…
 
How many? Well, there’s the Pope and there’s me. So, at least 2.
 
There aren´t many, it´s necessary more, but we have to pray and make more.
 
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AJC:
Not enough! :ehh:
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Why do you suppose the 1.2 B number is used when it is obvious that large percentages of Catholics do not practice their religion?
 
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Ryniev:
Here is another dumb question. Is someone like my dad who was baptized and confirmed Catholic but left the Church still considered Catholic by the Churches criteria?
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Maybe.

If he joined another religion, or by another formal act renounced Catholicism, he is no longer a member.

But if he just quit showing up at church, he’s still in the club.
 
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Ryniev:
Thank you! Do you think that the majority of Catholics are self-excommunicated then? I wonder why so many continue in the Church instead of becoming say Episcopalian or Lutheran?
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Probably because they don’t agree with all of Episcopalianism or Lutheranism either.
 
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Kielbasi:
Probably because they don’t agree with all of Episcopalianism or Lutheranism either.
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Or they become fundamentalists who hate the Catholic Church. I know quite of few of those actually.
 
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Kielbasi:
Maybe.

If he joined another religion, or by another formal act renounced Catholicism, he is no longer a member.

But if he just quit showing up at church, he’s still in the club.
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I just wondered if that 1.2 billion number (I messed up with the 2 billion) counted everyone who had been baptized, or everyone who had been confirmed, or everyone who had their first communion or if only counted people who were registered in a parish somewhere? I’m curious to how the Church goes about getting that number.
 
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