Catholic Church in the United States

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In the United States, the Catholic Church is the largest single Christian denomination and the second-largest religious tradition after Protestantism. As of 2024, an estimated 19% to 22% of the adult population in the U.S. identifies as Catholic. The United States has the fourth-largest Catholic population in the world, following Brazil, Mexico, and the Philippines. Catholicism has had a significant cultural, social, and institutional presence in the United States, reflected in its parishes, schools, universities, hospitals, charitable organizations, and participation in public life. Catholicism first entered the territories that would become the United States through Spanish colonization, with the earliest documented Mass celebrated in 1526 by Dominican friars, and through French colonization. More than any other empire, the French claimed and assumed vast stretches of the continent, notably the Great Lakes regions and the Mississippi Valley, which included Louisiana. During the colonial...

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