Catholic Exodus...?

I haven't finished reading this fully yet, however it's pretty eye opening statistics....just thought it was interesting and wanted to pass it on.

Pew Survey Shows America's vast Catholic Exodus

Feb. 27, 2008 (CWNews.com) - One out of every ten adult Americans is a lapsed Catholic. From the Catholic perspective that is the most striking statistic among the many furnished in a "Religious Landscape Survey" by the Pew Forum.

Catholics still constitute the single largest religious denomination in the US, accounting for 23.9% of the adult population. (Evangelical churches, taken as a group, are home to 26.3% of the American people; but they are divided among the different Protestant denominations.) Baptists run a distant second, with 12.7%. If they qualified as a separate denomination, the Americans who have deserted the Catholic Church of their childhood would constitute the third-largest religious group in the country, with 10.1% of the population. MORE