Predominately Catholic United States

How do we make this happen?

Short of annexing Mexico, and/or Quebec, or the huge majority of Protestants die off somehow, I don't believe there's anything that could be done other than a significantly larger immigration from southern and western Europe, that also lasts longer that IOTL, and with perhaps even higher birthrates.
That's all I got, though.
 
One option as mentioned before is assuming the Spaniards invaded England with the Great Armada. The other is halting somehow English exploration of North America and letting the French and Spanish crowns continue its colonization.
 
You can still have a revolution. Yeah, it will butterfly the United States as we know it, but that's the same with just about any pod that makes it predominately catholic.
 
Only with a pre-1700 POD, which would butterfly the U.S.A. out of existence.

US is nearly 40% Catholic now. You could have a POD in the 1870s and relax immigration from southern europe and later siuth America and it would be majority Catholic.

Yiu could have a POD today regarding south american immigration and it would result in majority catholic within 30 years.
 
What about having France remain as the U.S. most important ally somehow? Catholicism did fairly well in the U.S. in OTL even with the nation's strong anti-Catholic attitude, perhap good relations with France soften these attitudes and make Catholicism a generally accepted form of Christianity by 1850 or so? After that, more immigration from Catholic countries and immigrants who aren't socially pressured to convert may just get a Catholic majority. It's a long shot, but I can't think of much else that could accomplish this.
 
US is nearly 40% Catholic now. You could have a POD in the 1870s and relax immigration from southern europe and later siuth America and it would be majority Catholic.

You could have a POD today regarding south american immigration and it would result in majority catholic within 30 years.

Yes, getting a majority of the US population to identify as Catholic is not that big of a deal. However, the OP is, I believe, asking for more than that. The OP is asking for ways to bring about a predominately Catholic U.S.; one where Catholicism is dominant, paramount, preeminent, and has the greatest power, importance and influence. Given the colonizing influences, the wording of the U.S. Constitution's 1st Amendment and given the anti-Catholic sentiment which was prevalent in 19th Century America (which lingered through the mid-20th), getting a predominately Catholic United States is much more difficult.
 
It would be very unlikely but instead of forming the Episcopalian church, have the colonists convert to Catholicism when the break from Britain.

Neither Anglican clergy nor laymen would convert en masse to Catholicism, and neither, for that matter, would the Presbyterians or Deists who fomented the rebellion against the Crown.
 
You could have worse Catholic persecution in England during the 16th and 17th Centuries. Maybe a successful assassination plot against Henry VIII in retaliation for the Dissolution of the Monastaries?
 
Is this question only for a USA with the OTL borders, or could it also have incorporated Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines?
 
US is nearly 40% Catholic now. You could have a POD in the 1870s and relax immigration from southern europe and later siuth America and it would be majority Catholic.

Yiu could have a POD today regarding south american immigration and it would result in majority catholic within 30 years.

Actually, this article (from a Catholic website) says the U.S. population is 22% Catholic - a decrease from 1972 (when it was 26%). Even with major Latin American immigration, the proportion of Catholics has been gradually trending downward. If not for immigration, it would be in free-fall.

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=15854
 
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It would be very unlikely but instead of forming the Episcopalian church, have the colonists convert to Catholicism when the break from Britain.

The Episcopal Church has a pretty small membership in the U.S. compared to other English-speaking countries - only about 1% of the population.
 
Is this question only for a USA with the OTL borders, or could it also have incorporated Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines?

Incorporating those places would be essential to making the US predominately Catholic. How would incorporating those parts (and including the Dominican Republic and perhaps more of OTL northern Mexico as well) influence the whole (the nation's overall social, cultural and spiritual thinking & activities)?
 
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