In fact, closer examination of these statistics on Latinos provides a challenge rather than a threat to Catholic America. Instead of worrying about losing members via conversion, the Church must stem the erosion of Catholic identification towards "no religion," which was the major factor in reducing the percentage of Catholic Latinos and
Latinas from 66% in 1990 to 60% in 2008.
The report shows that Pentecostals are NOT absorbing ex-Catholics. Despite past alarmist soundings of how Latinos and Latinas were fast becoming Pentecostals and/or Evangelicals, the new numbers show that the ratio of 2.5 Catholics to every one Protestant/Pentecostal has carried over from the 1990s into this century. As before, 97 out of every 100 Latinos can be found outside Pentecostalism, with an impressive majority faithful to Catholicism. READ FULL STORY
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