Pew Research Obscures Latin America’s Apostasy Crisis Through Naturalistic Lens
The EWTN News portal (January 21, 2026) uncritically relays a Pew Research Center report claiming Catholics remain Latin America’s largest religious group despite declining numbers. The analysis frames the crisis through sociological metrics – prayer frequency, self-identification percentages, and “religious switching” – while ignoring the supernatural catastrophe of sacramental abandonment and doctrinal corruption. Cardinal errors include:
“Catholicism remains the largest religion in Latin America… roughly half of Brazilians (46%) and Chileans (46%) identified as Catholic.”
This deceitfully equates baptized populations with actual Catholics. As Pius XII taught: “Not all who are incorporated into the Church are saved… They are fully incorporated who… preserve unity with the Church’s visible structure” (Mystici Corporis Christi, 22). The conciliar sect’s counterfeit sacraments and modernist doctrines render such “Catholics” materially outside Christ’s True Church.