Liberation Sexuality is no more successful than Liberation Theology, writes Gavin Ashenden

“The Vatican is losing the largest Catholic country in the world: it's a huge, irreversible loss,” said José Eustáquio Diniz Alves, a renowned Brazilian demographer and former professor at the national statistics agency. At the current rate, he estimates that Catholics will make up less than 50 percent of all Brazilians by early July.

According to a new Pew Research Centre survey on religion in 18 Latin American countries and Puerto Rico, tens of millions of Latin Americans have left the Roman Catholic Church in recent decades and embraced Pentecostal Christianity. Indeed, nearly one-in-five Latin Americans now describe themselves as Protestant.