In the past 50 years, the percentage of Argentinians who say they are Catholic has fallen from 90% to 52%.
“Argentines who say they trust the Catholic Church are also in freefall: from 52% in 2017 to 31% today,” writes longtime Vatican journalist Sandro Magister. “The same goes for Pope Francis’s approval rating, which fell from 62 to 52% over the same period.”
POPE FRANCIS TO CONFER NEW LAY MINISTRIES FOR FIRST TIME IN ST. PETER’S BASILICA
The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will confer the ministries of catechist, lector, and acolyte upon lay men and
