Catholic News Agency portal reports on January 21, 2026 that despite remaining Latin America’s largest religious group, Catholicism has declined across six surveyed nations (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru) with Colombia experiencing a 19% drop since 2013. The Pew Research Center study cites religious switching as primary cause, with former Catholics becoming either Protestant or religiously unaffiliated (“nones”), while noting high prayer frequency among remaining adherents. Parallel declines are observed among US Hispanics, where Catholic identification fell from 58% to 42% since 2014. This data-driven analysis epitomizes the conciliar sect’s reduction of faith to sociological metrics while obscuring doctrinal apostasy.
Statistical Obsession Over Salvation
The report’s fixation on demographic shifts (“roughly half of Brazilians (46%) and Chileans (46%) identified as Catholic”) constitutes a naturalistic inversion of the Church’s divine mission. Quas Primas expressly condemned such secular metrics: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the entire human society had to be shaken” (Pius XI). By framing apostasy as mere “religious switching,” the conciliar apparatus ignores the dogmatic reality that formal abandonment of Catholicism constitutes mortal sin risking eternal damnation. The 97% Peruvian theism rate becomes spiritual deception when divorced from extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (no salvation outside the Church) – a dogma suppressed since Vatican II.
Naturalization of Apostasy
Linguistic manipulation permeates the analysis:
“Former Catholics in Latin America tend to identify as either religiously unaffiliated or Protestant”
This neutral descriptor obscures heresy’s gravity. Canon 2314 of the 1917 Code mandated excommunication for public apostates, yet the conciliar sect treats defection as consumer choice. The term “nones” sanitizes what Pius IX’s Syllabus condemned as “indifferentism” (Error #15). Nowhere does the report mention:
- The sacramental invalidity of Protestant “communities”
- The canonical penalties incurred by apostates
- The eternal consequences of dying outside Catholic communion
Ecumenical Poison Fruits
Colombia’s 19% Catholic collapse directly stems from the conciliar sect’s 1960s-70s experimentation. The Medellín Conference (1968) – orchestrated by “Cardinal” Lercaro and Freemason Ivan Illich – promoted Protestant-style “base communities” and vernacular liturgies that destroyed sacramental piety. As Pius X warned in Lamentabili Sane, Modernism reduces doctrine to evolving consciousness (Error #22). The report’s observation that “former Protestants tend to have become ‘nones'” confirms Protestantism’s insufficient grace to retain adherents – a truth Vatican II’s Unitatis Redintegratio denied by falsely attributing “ecclesial elements” to heretical sects.
Eucharistic Desertification
While touting Latin American prayer frequency (“76% of Brazilians pray daily”), the analysis omits the catastrophic decline in sacramental practice. True Catholic devotion centers on the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass – systematically destroyed by post-conciliar reforms:
- Invalid vernacular translations
- Protestantized anaphoras
- Communion in hand
As the False Fatima Apparitions file notes, Modernism substitutes spectacle for sacrament: “The efficacy of Holy Mass is diminished in favor of spectacular acts.” Processions like Ayacucho’s Holy Week (featured in the article) become empty folk rituals when divorced from valid priests offering the Immemorial Rite.
The US Hispanic Collapse Mirror
Parallel declines among US Hispanics (42% Catholic vs 58% in 2014) reveal the conciliar sect’s universal failure. “Bishop” César Garza’s “V Encuentro” program (2017-2018) accelerated apostasy by promoting lay empowerment over catechism. When 40% consider religion “very important” yet only 42% remain Catholic, it proves the neo-church produces sentimental theism, not fides et ratio. Pius XII’s Mystici Corporis (1943) defined true belonging as “baptism, profession of faith, and submission to legitimate shepherds” – impossible under antipope Leo XIV’s counterfeit hierarchy.
Symptomatic Silence
The report’s glaring omissions condemn the conciliar regime:
- No mention of Freemasonic infiltration documented in Lamentabili Sane
- No analysis of contraception/abortion rates despite “Catholic” nations legalizing both
- No reference to the Index of Forbidden Books – abolished in 1966, accelerating doctrinal corruption
By celebrating Colombia’s 71% daily prayer rate while ignoring its 2017 abortion legalization and 2023 gay “marriage” ruling, the analysis epitomizes the conciliar divorce between piety and morality.
As the conciliar sect collapses numerically and doctrinally, the solution remains unchanged: return to the Missale Romanum of Pius V, the Codex Iuris Canonici of Benedict XV, and the Syllabus Errorum of Pius IX. Only through integral Catholic restoration can Latin America’s surviving faithful rebuild Christ’s true Kingdom.
Source:
Catholics remain the largest religious group across Latin America, Pew says (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 21.01.2026