New statistics show U.S. Catholics increase in numbers

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With all the bad news stories some good news, no pun intended 😃

In the last census in Australia Catholics were up 7%
Then there’s stories from Britain and Africa
And now…

New statistics show U.S. Catholics increase in numbers
catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=16201

In 2008 there were 887,145 infant baptisms, 42,629 adult baptisms, and 81,775 baptized Christians who entered full communion with the Church. The Kenedy Directory lists 18,674 parishes, including 91 new parishes, and 189 seminaries with 4,973 students.

U.S. Catholic hospitals number 562 and serve almost 85.3 million patients, while 3009 Catholic social service centers assist 27.2 million people annually.

World Catholic population increases by 1.4%
catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=11937

Between 2005 and 2006, the number of Catholics in the world increased from 1.115 to 1.131 billion, a growth of 1.4 percent.
 
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition, i.e., more prayer for the spread of our wonderful faith.
 
That is great news. But in this day and age, we need 100% Catholics…not just Catholics.
 
lil_flower_luv said:
That is great news. But in this day and age, we need 100% Catholics…not just Catholics.
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To be truly Catholic, one must believe all that the Church believes and teaches. If you do not, in archaic terminology, one would be a heretic.
 
Thank you so much for posting this! I’m so happy! I hope this growth continues!
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This makes me feel better. The priest at my church always made the outlook appear grim.
Thanks Canto :clapping: 🙂
 
This is good, but conversions to Catholicism in the US were down by 9%, which is a surprisingly large downturn for a single year. Most of the growth in the US came from immigration from Latin America.

(Not wanting to rain on anyone’s parade… just relaying the facts…)
 
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Catholicism over took Anglicanism as the #1 religion in the UK the other year, I believe this is based on church attendance figures though, but hey 👍
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I don’t recall the specifics, but my suspicion is that Catholicism has not suddenly surged in popularity among Britons, but that 1) Anglicanism has experienced a precipitous fall, and 2) Any increase in Catholics in Britain is probably due to immigrants from more Catholic areas of the EU, such as Poland.
 
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