Because he’s the voice of the largest denomination in the US and he’s the head of the vice president’s religion and loudly condemning him.
I don’t love the church, I left it over the homophobia, misogyny, and transphobia. But I recognize how influential the pope is and that his preaching may be able to reduce how fucked my country is right now.
Unless you lump all protestants together it is by a lot at least according to the first link I found. They make up a little over a quarter of American Christians.
It is, by a pretty wide margin. While many more people identify as Protestant, they’re split among dozens of denominations. I haven’t seen recent stats but in 2015 they were about 20% of the US. For comparison, the Southern Baptist Convention was the second largest at about 5.3%
Because he’s the voice of the largest denomination in the US and he’s the head of the vice president’s religion and loudly condemning him.
I don’t love the church, I left it over the homophobia, misogyny, and transphobia. But I recognize how influential the pope is and that his preaching may be able to reduce how fucked my country is right now.
I don’t believe Catholicism is the biggest denomination in the US
Unless you lump all protestants together it is by a lot at least according to the first link I found. They make up a little over a quarter of American Christians.
It is, by a pretty wide margin. While many more people identify as Protestant, they’re split among dozens of denominations. I haven’t seen recent stats but in 2015 they were about 20% of the US. For comparison, the Southern Baptist Convention was the second largest at about 5.3%