One Out Of Every 10 Americans Is An Ex-Catholic
By JOE SIXPACK Alarming isn’t it? But that’s right! One out of every 10 Americans is an ex-Catholic — yes, a full 10 percent of our nation. If they were a separate denomination, they would be the third-largest denomination in the United States, after Catholics and Baptists.The alarm doesn’t stop there. Seventy-nine percent of former Catholics leave the Church before age 23, 50 percent of young people who were raised Catholic are no longer Catholic today, and 6.5 people leave Catholicism for every one that joins.There are many other alarming statistics, but I don’t have room for them here. There are almost as many reasons for people leaving the Church as there are people walking out the door. But the…Continue Reading