Catholica Forum - Catholic Statistics

Links to various research organisations and websites conducting research into the demographics of Catholicism...

NEW SCIENTIST: Who Believes What? An interesting graphic from the "God Issue" of New Scientist (March 2012) showing the numbers attracting by the major religions of the world
Original Source: www.newscientist.com/data/images/archive/2856/28562001.jpg.
String where the series was discussed on the Catholica forum: www.catholica.com.au/forum/index.php?id=97952.

AGENZIA FIDES Official Catholic Church Statistics 2010 (20Oct2010)
www.catholica.com.au/misc/CatholicChurchStatistics_2010.pdf
Original Source: www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=27635&lan=eng

CARA Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University (US National and International research)
cara.georgetown.edu/index.html

PEW FORM Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
www.pewforum.org/

NCR Article by Tom Roberts in NCR with good US stats (11Oct2010)
ncronline.org/news/faith-parish/had-it-catholics

NCR An updated article by Tom Roberts in NCR with good US stats (07Dec2010)
ncronline.org/news/faith-parish/outline-new-life

PPO Pastoral Projects Office of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference (Australian Research)
www.ppo.catholic.org.au/

Catholic Australia Good overall statistics for the situation in Australia from this website published by Church Resources
www.catholicaustralia.com.au/page.php?pg=austchurch-survey

Catholic Hierarchy Information about Catholic Bishops past and present
www.catholic-hierarchy.org/

Sandro Magister article on Participation Rates in Italy and Europe (August 2010)
chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1344389?eng=y

Telegraph UK Interactive map of participation rate in UK
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/the-pope/7978479/Catholicism-in-the-UK-in-numbers.html

Commonweal Excellent article by Peter Steinfels on decline in participation (22Oct2010)
commonwealmagazine.org/further-adrift

National Church Life Survey November 2011 Media Release from Australian Catholic Bishops Office giving notice of NCLS to be conducted in November 2011 (01Sep2011)
www.catholica.com.au/forum/index.php?mode=thread&id=82770#p82845. That entire string is worth looking at also.

WIN-Gallup International Global Religion and Atheism Index 2012: This is a global survey conducted since 1977 showing the trends in religious belief.
redcresearch.ie/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/RED-C-press-release-Religion-and-Atheism-25-7-12.pdf

CNS/NCR Report, 17 Aug 2012, which provides some insight into the official Vatican thinking in the decline in participation and the agenda for the so-called "New Evangelisation". The report is headlined: Statistically speaking: "Vatican numbers hint at fading faith practice"
ncronline.org/news/vatican/statistically-speaking-vatican-numbers-hint-fading-faith-practice

Report by The Economist, 18 Aug 2012, into Catholic Church finances in America (with implications for the entire world). The report is headlined: "The Catholic church in America: Earthly concerns": www.economist.com/node/21560536
A summary of the report was also published in NCR. The NCR summary is headlined: "An Unholy Mess": ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/unholy-mess