🇺🇸 In 1965, 1.24 million babies were baptized Catholic in the U.S. In 2022? 438,000.
That's a 65% drop in infant baptisms in less than 60 years.
First Communions were 850K in 1990.
In 2025: 537K.
Confirmations are up, though!
491K in 1990 to 498K in 2025.
This largely disproves the claim that Latin American immigration to the USA will make the country more Catholic, as many conservative politicians, activists, and church leaders claimed.
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