![]() ![]() This is because of the continuing growth of the American Hispanic community as a share of the U.S. Currently, however, they are also clustered in the southwest. Though Catholic adherents are present throughout the country, Catholics are generally more concentrated in the Northeast and urban Midwest. People have left for a number of reasons, factors which have also affected other denominations: loss of belief, disenchantment, indifference, or disaffiliation for another religious group or for none. Ībout 10% of the United States' population as of 2010 are former Catholics or non-practicing, almost 30 million people. As of April 9, 2018, 39% of American Catholics attend church weekly, compared to 45% of American Protestants. In a 2021 Pew Research study, "21% of US adults described themselves as Catholic, identical to the Catholic share of the population in 2014." In absolute numbers, Catholics have increased from 45 million to 72 million. Since 1960, the percentage of Americans who are Catholic has fallen from about 25% to 22%. Nuns were very active in teaching and hospital work. Parishes set up parochial schools, and hundreds of colleges and universities were established by Catholic religious orders, notably by the Jesuits, who founded 28 such schools of higher education. Large scale Catholic immigration from Mexico began after 1910, and in 2019 Latinos comprised 37 percent of American Catholics. The number of Catholics grew rapidly in the 19th and 20th centuries through high fertility and immigration, especially from Ireland and Germany, and after 1880, Eastern Europe, Italy, and Quebec. Tensions between Protestants and Catholics continued in the 20th century, especially when a Catholic was running for president as in 19. However, in the mid-19th century there was political anti-Catholicism in the United States, sponsored by pietistic Protestants fearful of the pope and rising Catholic immigration. No religious test was allowed for holding national office, and colonial legal restrictions on Catholics holding office were gradually abolished by the States. ![]() George Washington in the army and as president set a standard for religious toleration. His brother Daniel Carroll was the leading Catholic among the Founding Fathers of the United States. John Carroll became the first American bishop. In 1789, the Archdiocese of Baltimore was the first diocese in the newly independent nation. English Catholics, on the other hand, "harassed in England by the Protestant majority," settled in Maryland (1634) and founded the first state capitol, St. ![]() Likewise, France founded settlements with missions attached to them in the Great Lakes and Mississippi River region, notably, Detroit (1701), St. In the colonial era, Spain and later Mexico established missions (1769–1833) that had permanent results in New Mexico and California ( Spanish missions in California). Ĭatholicism first arrived in North America during the Age of Discovery. The United States has the fourth largest Catholic population in the world, after Brazil, Mexico, and the Philippines. In a 2020 Gallup poll, 25% of Americans said they were Catholic. With 23 percent of the United States' population as of 2018, the Catholic Church is the country's second largest religious grouping, after Protestantism, and the country's largest single church or Christian denomination where Protestantism is divided into separate denominations. ![]()
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