Andrew Chesnut, Author at Catholic Herald

Andrew Chesnut

January 25, 2018

Latin Americans have been defecting to Protestantism for decades. Now many are rejecting organised religion altogether

January 25, 2018

One of the major reasons why a Latin American was elected the first pope from the New World almost five years ago is the long-term decline of the flock in the most Catholic region on earth. Just five decades ago, in 1970, Latin America was 92 per cent Catholic. Mexicans, Argentines and Brazilians, for example,

The Church tilts south

October 20, 2016

The historic election of the first non-European Jesuit superior-general points to two great trends in the Church. First, the new focus on Latin America, home to 40 per cent of the world’s Catholics, initiated by the election of the Argentine Pope Francis, has sharpened with the appointment of the Venezuelan Fr Arturo Sosa Abascal. Second,

The Church tilts south

October 20, 2016

With both the Pope and the Jesuit superior general now hailing from Latin America, the centre of Catholic gravity has truly shifted

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