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.
Civil Society The term, âcivil societyâ, is used loosely to refer to a diffuse collective existence outside formally organized structures such as the state, official parties, the church and, presumably, trade unions, NGOs, youth and womenâs organizations.