The United States is home to about 7 percent of all Catholics in the world. As of 2010, an estimated 23 percent of U.S. adults and 24 percent of the total U.S. population are Catholic. The U.S. Catholic population has lost more members than it has gained from denominational switching.
Definition of civil union. : the legal status that ensures to same-sex couples specified rights and responsibilities of married couples.
union. 1  the act of uniting two or more things. 2  the state of being united. 3  something formed by uniting two or more things; combination. 4  a number of persons, states, etc., joined or associated together for some common purpose: student union; credit union.