Immigration boosting US Catholic numbers

By The Manila Times

Sep 23, 2015 11:37 pm

WASHINGTON: Catholics make up around a quarter of the US population and their numbers are growing, thanks in part to immigration, according to researchers at Georgetown University.

Americans who self-identify as Catholic, including those who do not attend Mass regularly, numbered 81.6 million in 2015, more than 25 percent of the US population.

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