Total membership in U.S. Christian churches continued to rise in 2005, despite ongoing declines in some of the country's largest mainline Protestant churches, according to the 2007 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches.
The Catholic Church remained the largest Christian church in the U.S. in 2005 with a reported membership of 69,135,254, or nearly 42 percent of all Christian church membership.
With an increase of 1.94 percent over its previous year's total, the Catholic Church was also among the fastest-growing of the nation's 25 largest churches, followed closely by the Assemblies of God, which recorded 1.86 percent growth, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with 1.63 percent growth.
Many Americans are of the false impression that Catholicism is virtually the state religion in Mexico. It is not. In fact, Mexico has harshly persecuted the Church, murdering priests and nuns and creating thousands of martyrs. Although President Vicente Fox has improved relations with Catholicism gradually, the Catholic church in Mexico is in much the same state that the Russian Orthodox church was under Soviet rule.
The catholic Church is not growing because of the number of illegal immigrants from Latin America. One safe presumption would be that of new Hispanic immigrants, those who are illegal would be much less likely to register with anyone, including their parish.
2007-06-15 09:55:47
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answered by Sldgman 7
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Assuming you mean the United States and not North and South America:
According to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University, the U.S. population of Catholics is as large as it ever has been and is still growing:
1965 = 45,600,000
1975 = 48,700,000
1985 = 52,300,000
1995 = 57,400,000
2000 = 59,900,000
2005 = 64,800,000
And in the entire world:
1970 = 653,600,000
1975 = 709,600,000
1980 = 783,700,000
1985 = 852,000,000
1990 = 928,500,000
1995 = 989,400,000
2000 = 1,045,000,000
2004 = 1,114,000,000
With love in Christ.
2007-06-15 16:52:29
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answered by imacatholic2 7
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Catholics are part of the 83% majority who claim to be Christian in America. The last data I saw was from 2000. It said approx 40% of American claim to be Catholics of some degree. The number is changing since Mexicans are overwhemlingly Catholic and they do reproduce rapidly. Not a racist remark, just acknowledging the fact that they are the fastest growing sector of our society. Expect them to be a majority at some point in the future.
2007-06-15 09:54:56
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answered by morgan j 4
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25 % of population, biggest Church in America
2007-06-15 09:52:16
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answered by Christopher B 2
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Not as many as there was since it came out about the father's{Preist rapeing their young men and a few girls}
2007-06-15 09:49:35
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answered by Gypsy Gal 6
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None that can't be corrupted.
2007-06-15 09:48:39
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answered by Anonymous
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