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.
Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  Civil(adj) pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within the city or state. 2  Civil(adj) subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not barbarous; -- said of the community.