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....on social issues, especially homosexuality, Catholics are far more likely to be liberal than other Christians, and even Americans in general....the Pew Center finds that an overwhelming number of US Catholics aged 18 to 29 accept homosexuality (85 percent) and support same-sex marriage (75 percent). More worryingly for conservative Catholics, when the question is asked of weekly massgoers, who are by definition more likely to be involved in the faith and in their parish, the number of overall pro-SSM Catholics is an astonishing 45 percent. Only 44 percent of weekly massgoers support the Church’s teaching, which is to oppose same-sex marriage. The last 11 percent presumably don’t know how they feel. Given the strong cultural currents moving toward full acceptance of gay marriage, there is no reason to believe that when they do make their minds up, that all, or even most, of those undecided Catholics will break for the Church’s position. In fact, given that Pew’s analysis doesn’t break out the weekly massgoers by age group, it is likely that the opposition to SSM is heavily weighted toward the seniors, a group that is literally dying out....

....In general, the higher a share of a country’s residents are Catholic, the higher percentage of residents express tolerance toward divorce and towards gays. The effect isn’t huge, but it’s consistent.

One of my best friends grew up in a Catholic family. Her parents were forever at their church engaging in some activity which they believed would get them into Heaven, utterly neglecting their children in the process.

One of their kids is now a confirmed homosexual. Another is a drug-addled ne'er-do-well. My friend decided early on to avoid her parents' so-called faith, which of course is no faith at all since they were always fearful regarding God's acceptance of them.

She's doing alright, but is extremely wary of religion in general because of her resentment toward her parents. I pray she will one day understand the difference between religion and a relationship with Jesus Christ.

Catholics being liberal-minded is a result of all that so-called tolerance gobble-de-gook.

For some persons tolerance is another synonym for charity. But, charity is a noun - it is a cardinal virtue according to the catholic church. Tolerance is not usually a noun, but an adjective. Example - tolerance of what??? One can have a tolerant attitude - tolerance requires a subject which explains what a person is tolerant of.

Should one be tolerant of evil; of the devil’s actions? The era of the hippie movement is the progenitor of what we are reaping today - flower children, I’m OK, you’re OK, etc. The notion that we can think our way to utopia without the reliance upon a Creator and some eternal rules for behavior.

So, the problem with some Catholics is simply that they have caved in to the moral decay of the day. When Protestants cave in, they usually no longer perceive themselves as necessarily Christians - more as agnostics. Bur for a lot of reasons Catholics cling to the identity as Catholics when they are behaving as agnostics. I have relatives that are like this. I just shake my head in disbelief.

My brother-in-law is a rabid catholic who votes straight-line democrat. His wife, my sister-in-law, explained that they vote democrat because the Republicans don't do enough to stop abortion. For the sake of family peace, I didn't even try to respond to that. But that is the mentality we have to deal with.

Oh my....

They get good works fuzziness

We get Joel Osteen...lol

All sects have their highs and lows

Poll after poll after poll shows the same results year in and year out, no matter who does it, even the Catholic church, and it gets denied time and again here on the RF, and yet NOBODY shows poll results that prove any different. They just deny it and expect us to take them are their word.

Fat chance.....

Was this commissioned by the guy here who's always going on and on about Catholics and Mormons? Blessedly, I have forgotten his name, but he'll show up here sooner or later.

The support of 18-29 year old Catholics for gay marriage isn't in line with the opinions of others in that age group of other religions.

Catholics are concentrated on highly urbanized states and their views aren't that different from those of their (Mainline) Protestant neighbors.

Before Vatican II it was very different. This is a case of Catholics finally assimilating to the opinions of the (secular and Mainline Protestant) culture after decades of being chastised for their "backwardness," and finding themselves attacked by people who really weren't on the scene for all those years.