Rodrigo,

Let me pull your coat for a moment. The initial topic of the thread was the Black Legend against Spain and Cathlocism.

If the U.S. was founded by masonic anti-Catholics, I still lack a proper understanding of the term, why is the U.S. the fourth largest Catholic nation in the world at the moment?

Study finds US Catholic parishes growing larger, more complex | National Catholic Reporter

The study said that the number of Catholic parishes -- which peaked in 1990 at 19,620 -- dropped by 1,359, or 7.1 percent, in the latest decade to almost the same number as in 1965. The U.S. Catholic population is currently about 77.7 million, about 75 percent higher than it was 40 years ago, when it was served by roughly the same number of parishes, the study said.

It projected that by 2050 the nation’s Catholic population could range from a low of 95.4 million to a high of 128 million.

America has about 30 million more Catholics in it than there are people in Spain itself, and these are Catholics from a variety of ethnic backgrounds: Hispanic, Irish, Italian, Syraic, Ukrainian, etc. There's also a wider diversity of Catholic parishes here than in other countries of the world (I can name at least two Latin Mass churches in my hometown alone; the rest are more conventional and prefer vernacular services) but the Catholic Church in the U.S. is in full communion with Rome. This is in a basic context altough, specifically, I don't know the ins and outs. There are Catholics here who support Sedevacantism and reject the investiture of Pope Benedict; many do not.

What're your thoughts?