The United States is home to about 7 percent of all Catholics in the world. As of 2010, an estimated 23 percent of U.S. adults and 24 percent of the total U.S. population are Catholic. The U.S. Catholic population has lost more members than it has gained from denominational switching.
Definition of civil union. : the legal status that ensures to same-sex couples specified rights and responsibilities of married couples.
Meaning: A voluntary union for life (or until divorce) of adult parties of the same sex. Classified under: Nouns denoting stable states of affairs. Context example: parties to a civil union have all the same benefits, protections, and responsibilities under Vermont law as spouses in a marriage. Hypernyms (civil union is a kind of...):