General Discussion

it raises for me is where the numbers stand among US adult Hispanics. I found this from Pew Research, no pun intended, showing figures from 2022. The article is from 4/13/23. It would appear the US mix is around 43% Catholic, 27% other and 30% unaffiliated. The unaffiliated numbers sort of surprise me that they are about the same as the US generally because I would have thought the family influence was stronger than in the Anglo community. Given that these are overall numbers it would be interesting to see if they hold for the subgroup that are voters.

"Catholics remain the largest religious group among Latinos in the United States, even as their share among Latino adults has steadily declined over the past decade, according to a new analysis of Pew Research Center surveys. By contrast, the share of Latinos who identify as Protestants – including evangelical Protestants – has been relatively stable, while the percentage who are religiously unaffiliated has grown substantially over the same period.

As of 2022, 43% of Hispanic adults identify as Catholic, down from 67% in 2010. Even so, Latinos remain about twice as likely as U.S. adults overall to identify as Catholic, and considerably less likely to be Protestant. Meanwhile, the share of Latinos who are religiously unaffiliated (describing themselves as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular”) now stands at 30%, up from 10% in 2010 and from 18% a decade ago in 2013. The share of Latinos who are religiously unaffiliated is on par with U.S. adults overall."

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2023/04/13/among-u-s-latinos-catholicism-continues-to-decline-but-is-still-the-largest-faith/