{"id":25716,"date":"2011-04-19T14:40:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T14:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nc_reporter_thomas_reese-the_hidden_exodus_catholics_becoming_protestants\/"},"modified":"2011-04-19T14:40:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T14:40:17","slug":"nc_reporter_thomas_reese-the_hidden_exodus_catholics_becoming_protestants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25716","title":{"rendered":"(NC Reporter) Thomas Reese&#8211;The hidden exodus: Catholics becoming Protestants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Religious Landscape Survey by the Pew Research Center\u2019s Forum on Religion &#038; Public Life has put hard numbers on the anecdotal evidence: One out of every 10 Americans is an ex-Catholic. If they were a separate denomination, they would be the third-largest denomination in the United States, after Catholics and Baptists. One of three people who were raised Catholic no longer identifies as Catholic&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>If you believed liberals, most Catholics who leave the church would be joining mainline churches, like the Episcopal church. In fact, almost two-thirds of former Catholics who join a Protestant church join an evangelical church. Catholics who become evangelicals and Catholics who join mainline churches are two very distinct groups. We need to take a closer look at why each leaves the church&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/news\/hidden-exodus-catholics-becoming-protestants\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Religious Landscape Survey by the Pew Research Center\u2019s Forum on Religion &#038; Public Life has put hard numbers on the anecdotal evidence: One out of every 10 Americans is an ex-Catholic. If they were a separate denomination, they<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25716\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,50,42,209,154,184,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}