text: "The fact that Catholics are a majority at the moment seems irrelevant to that core issue."
  
  Quite true (your post observation). But also keep in mind Catholics are NOT a "majority" in the US any more than Germany is a "majority" in the EU. We are a minority with the largest number of affluent adherents -- of any other religious group -- in the US. But that does not mean that we (75 million) are a majority in a country of 325 million!