The Pew Research Center released a new survey on religion in America last week, the first such major study since 2014.
The news wasn’t good for the Catholic Church.
According to the Pew report, only 19 percent of Americans self-identify as Catholic. That’s down from 24 percent in 2007. That 19 percent includes anyone one who listed “Catholic” as their religion in the survey, meaning it counts not only people who go to Mass at least semi-regularly but also those who haven’t darkened the door of a church in years or even decades.
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