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Immigrants form growing proportion of US Catholics
March 06, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: More than 40% of American Catholics are immigrants or children of immigrants, a new Pew Research study finds.
The Pew survey found that 80% of Hispanic Catholics, and a stunning 92% of Asian Catholics in the US were immigrants or children of immigrants. Among white Catholics that figure dropped to 22%.
In other findings, the survey showed:
- 29% of self-identified Catholics in the US attend Mass at least weekly;
- 61% of white Catholics lean toward the Republican party, 36% toward the Democrats;
- among Hispanic Catholics those figures are roughly reversed: 56% Democratic, 39% Republican.
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