I felt I had to provide a little fact checking and interpretation.<\/a> <\/p>\nThere are two basic problems: 1) the numbers are wrong and 2) in any case, the numbers don\u2019t mean what VI apparently thinks they mean. Because there are tens of thousands more Catholics every day but that still isn\u2019t good news.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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