foreshorten3

Thank you for sharing those interesting statistics.   As you suggest the Church is rapidly changing.  About 25 percent of Catholics have abandoned the  the Church.  Although this figure looks grim the Church has actually grown because of the influx of Spanish speaking  Catholics from Mexico and Latin American countries. As of 2015 they represent 28 percent of of the total Catholic population. .  This is up from 8 percent in 1975,  Of particular interest almost 50 percent of younger Catholics (18 to 29) are Hispanic..