Religious Makeup of 112th Congress Reported

Pew Forum this week published data on the religious composition of the 112th Congress which has just convened. The new Congress is 57% Protestant; 29% Catholic; 7% Jewish; 3% Mormon; 1% Orthodox; 0.6% Buddhist; and 0.4% Muslim. The Protestant denominations that claim the most Congressional members are the Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians and Lutherans.