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What kind of Catholic are you?

Matt EmersonSeptember 04, 2015

Pew Research has published new survey on Catholics.

According to the web site Crux, "The survey of 5,122 US adults, including 1,016 self-identified Catholics, finds that the Church’s share of the religious marketplace is down from 23.9 percent in 2007 to 20 percent in the new survey, conducted in May and June of 2015. Yet it also finds that the warm, engaging pontiff may find fertile ground for his message of faith."

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