Class on 11/16/09

In class on Monday we discussed about the rise of Catholicism around the world. Honestly I was really hoping we would talk more about what Catholics believe and how that compares to Protestants, etc. But it was still really interesting to hear about the different continents, like Africa, Asia and South America and how Catholicism made its way to those parts and how it grew. I thought it was particularly interesting to hear that 50% of the world's population of Catholics are in South America alone. That just shows that almost the entire continent's population must be Catholic. I can attest to the fact of the high prominence of Catholicism in South America first hand - I used to be a missionary in Paraguay, central South America and found this fact to be true. There was quite a bit more idolatry involved with it even than there seems to be in the United States. I wonder how it differs even in Africa and Asia...