The United States is home to about 7 percent of all Catholics in the world. As of 2010, an estimated 23 percent of U.S. adults and 24 percent of the total U.S. population are Catholic. The U.S. Catholic population has lost more members than it has gained from denominational switching.
Definition of civil union. : the legal status that ensures to same-sex couples specified rights and responsibilities of married couples.
1 A union is an organization established by and for workers to pursue collective workplace goals: wages, benefits, work rules, power. 2  Unions arose after the Civil War as one response to modern industrial economy. 3  Unions grew rapidly from 1930s-50s, shrank from 1960s-present.