{"id":3793,"date":"2009-12-16T19:49:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T19:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/12\/the-vatican-is-located-2000-miles-too-far-north.html"},"modified":"2009-12-16T19:49:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T19:49:29","slug":"the-vatican-is-located-2000-miles-too-far-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/12\/the-vatican-is-located-2000-miles-too-far-north.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Vatican is located 2,000 miles too far north&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;By 2025, almost three-quarters of Catholics will live in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and that figure does not even count people of the global South living in the North&#8211;for instance, the 60 or 70 million U.S. residents who will then claim Latino origin. By 2050, the nations with the largest Catholic populations will be (in descending order): Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, the United States, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, France, Italy, Nigeria and Argentina. All these projections have a sizable margin of error. The inclusion of France, for instance, is dubious when recent surveys show less than half of French people accept even a notional Catholic label. Surely, baptism alone does not make a Catholic for life? But the broad picture is beyond question. By 2050, the Catholic Church will be, overwhelmingly, a Southern institution. The Vatican, arguably, is located two thousand miles too far north.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div align=\"right\">&nbsp;&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalinterest.org\/Article.aspx?id=22604\">Phillip Jenkins<\/a>, writing about a new book by the great John Allen, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Future-Church-Trends-Revolutionizing-Catholic\/dp\/0385520387\">&#8220;The Future Church&#8221; <\/a><\/p>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/crunchycon\/2009\/12\/catholicisms-future-goes-globa.html\">Rod.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;By 2025, almost three-quarters of Catholics will live in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and that figure does not even count people of the global South living in the North&#8211;for instance, the 60 or 70 million U.S. residents who will then claim Latino origin. 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