It is being reported by Reuters that Catholics are no longer the world’s number one religion.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the biggest single religious denomination in the world, the Vatican said on Sunday.
Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, who compiled the Vatican’s newly-released 2008 yearbook of statistics, said Muslims made up 19.2 percent of the world’s population and Catholics 17.4 percent.
"For the first time in history we are no longer at the top: the Muslims have overtaken us," Formenti told Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano in an interview, saying the data referred to 2006.
It then goes on to finger the reason:
…while the number of Catholics as a proportion of the world’s population was fairly stable, the percentage of Muslims was growing because of higher birth rates.
Hmm. The other thing I learned in the news today is that this guy is a Catholic priest:
Yeah, I didn’t believe it, either, until I went to the website of St Sabina and discovered, surprisingly, this "priest" and his "church" are indeed Catholic. And this "church" was the site of Barack Obama’s racist, bigoted, hate-mongering pastor "Rev" Wright’s re-entry into the public eye after a week in hiding.
Barack Obama’s former pastor, who canceled several public events after an uproar over his incendiary comments, surprised a Chicago congregation by attending an event to celebrate poet Maya Angelou’s birthday.
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright got a raucous standing ovation when he entered Saint Sabina church on the South Side on Friday night, video from WBBM-TV showed. Members yelled “Hallelujah!” as Wright embraced the Rev. Michael Pfleger, Saint Sabina’s pastor.
I’ve been a Catholic all my life, and I’ve never encountered a "priest" like Pastor Pflegler. If I had, there would be one less person calling himself a Catholic in the world. Thankfully, I always have gone to normal, REAL Catholic Churches where the LOVE of God is preached, not the HATRED of fellow man, as is apparently the norm in "black" "churches", including ones that claim to be Catholic. I’ve long known black racism existed. I had no idea it had risen to the level that it has even corrupted their "churches." God help them– especially the children, for whom this will perpetuate such garbage for yet another generation… (much like radical Islam)
[H/T Michelle Malkin]