“This is a person who has captured the whole world’s imagination”, said Fr. Wayne Pittard of St. Pius X Catholic Church. Religious identification is also measured as part of Gallup Daily tracking, and interviews with more than 170,000 individuals in 2014 showed a similar 23.9% of national adults interviewed identified as Catholic.
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8)… but it remains the largest religious family in the state.
All of this explains why Catholics have been a key swing group in recent presidential elections, much more so than other religious groups.
Almost one in six (57 percent) of Hispanics in the USA identify as Catholic.
70 percent of Hispanic Catholics agreed that a path to citizenship “should at least be an equal priority in immigration reform”, compared to 41 percent among non-Hispanic whites.
4) Until the last decade, the growth in California’s Catholic church tracked the growth in the state’s Hispanic population.
Today, Hispanics are 34 percent of US Catholics, according to the Public Religion Research Institute.
In light of Pope Francis’ trip to the US, dozens of churches and schools this week are turning the same page of the Saint John’s Bible each day to symbolize Christian unity.
16 – Percent of Missourians who say they are Catholic, according to the Pew Research Center.
Retrospective of previous pope’s St. Louis visit in 1999. The tendency for Catholics to mirror the overall population from a partisan perspective is a shift from the past, when Catholics tended to skew significantly more Democratic in their partisan and voting behavior.
Another analysis of the “top 10 Catholic cities” based on a multitude of factors.
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Kee says the Pope’s presence in the USA should be a push for all Catholics to recognize how happy Francis is to live a good life, and to try to follow his example.
