All right. Welcome back to the Loopcast. We are live. Today, I have the pleasure of being joined by Tom, another Tom, Tom McCluskey, and Kara.

So we got a good lineup for you today. First thing that really stuck out on the news, as, you know, all three of us are Catholic. We do work for a Catholic organization. We got a survey, a survey from Pew Research about United States Catholics.

That is a wrong video. That is a wrong video.

I got to love the live show.

So yeah, we're going to be talking about this Pew Research survey.

If we're looking at it right here, it's those nasty U.S. Catholics that people love to make fun of, but we got some stats.

Basically how the survey was conducted, and I looked into this a little bit.

It's done through mail, so it's just sent out by the U.S. Postal Service to see, you know,

who wants to participate, self-identified, they used addresses of people that were Catholic,

and then they also

use some online information as well. So if we hop into the first observation, one, today, 20% of

U.S. adults describe themselves as Catholic. This percentage is generally stable since 2014,

slightly lower than in 2007-124% of U.S. Catholics identified as Catholic. Was that surprising to you guys, 20% of U.S. Catholics identified as Catholic.

Was that surprising to you guys, 20% of U.S. adults?

High, low?

I mean, I think that's consistent with what we've always used here at Catholic Boat,

or at least that's what Brian has always used.

That 20% benchmark?

Yeah. I think that makes sense. that's a lot of people i mean

i might know better but i feel like that's consistent i wasn't surprised at that yeah generally that

statement that tom might know better is always true but in it um no i i i'd agree with it with you.

You'd always want to see it higher and as much negative as there is in the culture.

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