Your challenge of you chose to accept it is with a POD no earlier than 1776 is to make the United States of America a majority-Roman Catholic nation by 2015. TTL's United States doesn't have to have the same territory as OTL's United States.
Pardon my ignorance - was that not one of the reasons why the US stopped gobbling Mexican territory? To avoid strengthening the Catholic minority?As others have pointed out, the US gobbling up more of Mexico would probably push it close to 50%.
It would help if the deluge of Syrian and Lebanese Christians that immigrated to Latin America in the nineteeth and twentieth century had instead picked the United States. It'd help for Spain to retain control of its colonial empire a bit longer as they were rather picky when it came to settlers.
Pardon my ignorance - was that not one of the reasons why the US stopped gobbling Mexican territory? To avoid strengthening the Catholic minority?
How many of those were actually 'Catholic', even including 'Eastern Catholics' such as the Maronites as well as any actual 'Roman' Catholics involved, rather than members of other churches instead?It would help if the deluge of Syrian and Lebanese Christians that immigrated to Latin America in the nineteeth and twentieth century had instead picked the United States. It'd help for Spain to retain control of its colonial empire a bit longer as they were rather picky when it came to settlers.
Lets remember that the US is a plurality Catholic nation at the moment.
Lets remember that the US is a plurality Catholic nation at the moment.
If you mean that Catholics outnumber the members of any *single* Protestant (or other) church, yes. But that proves very little, due to the great number of Protestant churches. Protestants still outnumber Catholics by more than 2-1. http://religions.pewforum.org/reports