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47% of U.S. Adults Have a Personal or Family Connection to Catholicism
82% of Hispanic Americans have some connection to Catholicism
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- 47% of U.S. Adults Have a Personal or Family Connection to Catholicism
- 13% of Catholics pray daily and attend Mass weekly and go to confession at least yearly
- 13% of U.S. Catholics seldom or never pray, and seldom or never attend Mass, and never go to confession
- Most Catholics say having a relationship with Jesus is essential to what being Catholic means to them
- 91% of weekly Mass-going Catholics say a relationship with Christ is key to their faith; 83% say same about receiving the Eucharist
- 71% of Catholics view their parish priests favorably
- 51% of weekly Mass attenders say they also participate in their parish in other ways
- Compared with ‘cradle Catholics,’ more converts go to Mass weekly and receive Communion when they go
- Roughly half of converts to Catholicism mention their spouse or getting married as the main reason for converting
- 82% of Hispanic Americans have some connection to Catholicism
- Many cultural Catholics reference upbringing, relationships as the reason they identify as Catholic ‘aside from religion’