Mexican bishops are concerned, and well they should be. Six, maybe seven, of these so-called “affiliations” are simply Roman Catholic and under the pope. What is the intent of the government in listing all these as independent affiliations? Are they doing this for Protestant denominations? If so, they’d probably need dozens more pages. I suspect it is just a ploy to make the number of “Roman Catholics” appear to be less than what it is.
CNA reports: The bishops criticized the classification of religious affiliations included in the question, which gives Mexicans the option of identifying themselves as belonging to the “Roman Catholic Church, the Traditional Catholics, the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X (sic), the Tridentine Priestly Society, the Mexican National Catholic Church, The Catholic Church of the Apostles of the Last Days, the Society of St. Pius X, The Latin Rite Tridentine Catholic Church, the Latin Rite Catholic Church, the Tridentine Mexican Catholic Union, the Catholic Church of Christ International and the Reformed Apostolic Roman Catholic Church.” Read more here.
