Catholics
The Catholic Church, sometimes referred to as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with approximately 1.3 billion baptised Catholics worldwide as of 2018. As the world's oldest and largest continuously functioning international institution, it has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization. The church consists of almost 3,500 dioceses around the world. The pope, who is the Bishop of Rome (and whose titles also include Vicar of Jesus Christ and Successor of St. Peter), is the chief pastor of the church, entrusted with the universal Petrine ministry of unity and correction. The …
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The Sydney Institute · 16 April 2024 English
hear the cry: religion and politics should not be mixed. This warning was directed particularly at Catholics, many of whom were of Irish heritage. During the 1917 plebiscite, on whether there should be conscription …
mixed. This warning was directed particularly at Catholics, many of whom were of Irish heritage. During the …
Pew Research Center · 9 April 2024 English
Amid shifts in demographics and partisan allegiances, registered voters are now evenly split between the Democratic Party and the GOP.
religiously affiliated voters, particularly White Catholics and White evangelical Protestants. White evangelical …
Baker Institute for Public Policy · 6 April 2024 English
In a legal memorandum that, despite some instances of polemic, offers a helpful discussion of the history of the Supreme Court’s approach to the establishment clause since the 1960s, Sarah …
and “nondenominational” congregations, while Catholics make up around 22% of the population. Other religions … the Protestant approach to the Decalogue. Jews, Catholics and Protestants number the commandments differently …
Pew Research Center · 5 April 2024 English
In the United States, 21% of adults overall say they fast for certain periods during holy times.
of fasting at certain times of the year. Many Catholics, for example, recently fasted for Lent by abstaining … religious reasons, followed by Jewish Americans, Catholics and Black Protestants. While the February survey … Jewish temples in Jerusalem. Four-in-ten U.S. Catholics fast, according to the February survey. We didn’t … respondents about when they fast specifically, but many Catholics around the world fast during Lent, the 40-day … self-discipline. In 2015, we found that 47% of Catholics said they gave up something or did something extra …
Pew Research Center · 2 April 2024 English
40% of U.S. adults say there’s a lot of discrimination against Jews in society, and 44% say there’s a lot of discrimination against Muslims.
White evangelical Protestants (66%), White Catholics (69%), White nonevangelical Protestants (62%) … can analyze – including White Catholics (36%) and Hispanic Catholics (42%) – agree. White evangelical … White Protestants who are not evangelical, White Catholics, Jewish Americans and religiously unaffiliated … Black Protestants, Hispanic Protestants, Hispanic Catholics and Muslim Americans are less likely to say people …
CGO: Center for Growth and Opportunity · 1 April 2024 English
The views expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University or …
Employment status Religion Employed 0.403*** 0.169*** Catholics 0.419*** 0.157*** (predicted probability) (0.002) …
The Sydney Institute · 29 March 2024 English
sectarianism was used in Australia to describe hostility to the Catholic Church in general and Catholics in particular. Anti-Catholic sectarianism has never gone away, but it has diminished dramatically …
hostility to the Catholic Church in general and Catholics in particular. Anti-Catholic sectarianism has …
PRRI: Public Religion Research Institute · 27 March 2024 English
10 RELIGIOUS CHANGE IN AMERICA Religious Switching in America: Winners and Losers in the American Religious Marketplace Overview of Religious Switchers In 2016, PRRI published data that examined the rate …
Evangelical reten- tion rate has improved since 2016. • Catholics continue to lose more members than they gain, … rate for His- panic Catholics (68%) is somewhat higher than for white Catholics (62%). • White mainline/non-evangelical … 2016 to 31% in 2023. Former Catholics are more likely than former non-Catholics to say they no longer identify … mainline/non-evangelical Protestants (14%) and white Catholics (12%) remain largely similar to those of 2013 … Regarding Christians of color, the share of Hispanic Catholics (8%) and Hispanic Protestants (3%) also remain …
EU: European Union · 25 March 2024 English
2023 Report of the European Panel to the European Commission in application of Decision 1194/2011/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 November 2011 establishing a European …
canal-side house in 1663 by a Catholic from Germany. Catholics were forbidden to worship publicly in the Dutch …
Cato Institute · 25 March 2024 English
Some problems, like a fallen tree limb breaking a window, are evident from the moment they occur. But others, like termites undermining a building's structural supports, may not be exposed …
centuries, the end of the wars between European Catholics and Protestants in the 17th century furnishes … present, his first question would be “Who won — Catholics or Protestants?” For us the question has no meaning …