* Cultural Catholics who may go to church a few times a year. This may be one of those all-important “undecided voters” depending on what’s happening with the economy, foreign policy, etc. Leans to Democrats.
* Sunday-morning American Catholics. This voter is a regular in the pew and may even play some leadership role in the parish. This is the Catholic voter that is really up for grabs, the true swing voter that the candidates are after.
* The “sweats the details” Roman Catholic who goes to confession. Is active in the full sacramental life of the parish and almost always backs the Vatican, when it comes to matters of faith and practice. This is a very small slice of the American Catholic pie.
Great breakdown.
I really think it's a waste of time to pursue the "Roman Catholic vote". It is a liberal, big govt supporting church.
50 to 60 percent of Catholic men are Casual Catholics; they don’t know the faith and they don’t practice the faith.
25% of my church's membership are former RC's. The challenge isn't to get them to come to church, it's getting them talking about faith in the first place. Once you can get them past "well my church says" a lot of them open up. They just haven't really learned much of the Bible.
The more we have of the Spirit of Christ, and the more He has of us, the more we will be the apostles who said,
But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. (Acts 4:19-20)