Based on the results of the INEGI Census 2020 at the national level, in San Luis Potosí the percentage of people recognized as Catholics decreased from 82.7 percent to 77.7 percent, the Christians of other denominations grew from 7.5 to 11.2 percent and those who do not have a religious affiliation grew by 2.5 percent, In question, the spokesman for the Archdiocese of San Luis Potosi, Juan Jesus Priego Rivera, considered these data as worrying.
He acknowledged that the figures certainly represent an offense to the Catholic Church in Mexico and lead to the need to question from the inside its own action “it is necessary to make an examination of conscience to recognize that it is not it is responding to the desires and needs of the people, ”the spokesman said
He added that these numbers can definitely not be ignored, should lead the church to do an exercise in recognizing the shortcomings and find a way to correct them, so he said that certainly when the issue of the pandemic already allow it a national meeting will have to be convened to come up with a strategy to stop this negative inertia.
He indicated that of course an analysis must be made which is what the Protestant or Evangelical Christian churches are offering which has meant a growth of their faithful, it is clear that many Catholic Christians have preferred to change to these new denominations of Christianity, but the most worrying is the case of the rise of atheism and although he assured to feel a deep respect for those who declare themselves non-believers, he referred to the fact that in the scriptures it is noted that those who abandon faith “they have abandoned rivers of living water and are settling into cracked cisterns.”