Post by account_disabled on Mar 6, 2024 22:33:23 GMT -7
Pope Francis arrived in the capital of the “devil's dung” on Tuesday afternoon, where he will visit Washington, New York and Philadelphia, something that has already generated great expectations and concerns for famous politicians, religious leaders, community organizers and anonymous immigrants, in the fourth largest country of Catholics in the world. The Pope, with his central message about the condemnation of extreme economic inequality and his call for “structural change” along with peace and the defense of immigrants, will arrive in a country where all these issues occupy the center of the political debate and electoral. He will arrive in a country with the greatest economic inequality since 1928, which continues the longest wars in its history and where the anti-immigrant climate intensifies in the context of the electoral struggle and the failure of a promised immigration reform.
Although the historical religious and political framework of the United States is Protestant, more than 1 in 5 American America Mobile Number List adults consider themselves Catholic (active and inactive). As a religious denomination, the Catholic is the largest with estimates of between 72 million to 81 million who identify as Catholic in this country. 35 percent of Americans say they were raised in a Catholic home, according to a survey by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) The Catholic Church is being transformed demographically, losing some 32 million faithful in recent decades (today, 15 percent of Americans identify as ex-Catholic), but at the same time rescued by the entry of Latinos – in particular Latin American immigrants- the largest minority in the country In fact, immigrants now represent nearly 28 percent of Church members, and Latinos as a whole are 34 percent, according to PRRI figures. The change has been dramatic and rapid: in the early 1990s, the ratio was 10 white Catholics for every Hispanic Catholic; Today that ratio is less than .
That has also led to a geographic shift in its presence, with dramatic growth in the Southwest and South, while the hemorrhage of parishioners continues in the Northeast, including in what were once its most powerful points such as New York, Boston and Philadelphia. There is no doubt that the future of the Church here depends increasingly on Latinos and Latin Americans. The visit of a Latin American Pope, therefore, is vital in this context for the institution. At the same time, the American Catholic community is ideologically diverse, and Pope Francis is fueling tensions within it. Conservatives, while they will welcome the anti-abortion position and the sanctity of exclusively heterosexual marriage, are alarmed by a change in tone and emphasis by the Pope. In fact, 11 American cardinals published a book last week warning against any loosening of the ban on communion for divorced and remarried Catholics, the New York Times reported.
Although the historical religious and political framework of the United States is Protestant, more than 1 in 5 American America Mobile Number List adults consider themselves Catholic (active and inactive). As a religious denomination, the Catholic is the largest with estimates of between 72 million to 81 million who identify as Catholic in this country. 35 percent of Americans say they were raised in a Catholic home, according to a survey by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) The Catholic Church is being transformed demographically, losing some 32 million faithful in recent decades (today, 15 percent of Americans identify as ex-Catholic), but at the same time rescued by the entry of Latinos – in particular Latin American immigrants- the largest minority in the country In fact, immigrants now represent nearly 28 percent of Church members, and Latinos as a whole are 34 percent, according to PRRI figures. The change has been dramatic and rapid: in the early 1990s, the ratio was 10 white Catholics for every Hispanic Catholic; Today that ratio is less than .
That has also led to a geographic shift in its presence, with dramatic growth in the Southwest and South, while the hemorrhage of parishioners continues in the Northeast, including in what were once its most powerful points such as New York, Boston and Philadelphia. There is no doubt that the future of the Church here depends increasingly on Latinos and Latin Americans. The visit of a Latin American Pope, therefore, is vital in this context for the institution. At the same time, the American Catholic community is ideologically diverse, and Pope Francis is fueling tensions within it. Conservatives, while they will welcome the anti-abortion position and the sanctity of exclusively heterosexual marriage, are alarmed by a change in tone and emphasis by the Pope. In fact, 11 American cardinals published a book last week warning against any loosening of the ban on communion for divorced and remarried Catholics, the New York Times reported.