Posted on 04/18/2024 3:00:17 PM PDT by dynachrome
Pope Francis’ favorability rating has been dropping constantly among U.S. Catholics over the past 10 years, according to an April Pew Research Center poll.
From 2015 to 2021, the pope’s favorability rating dropped by 7 percentage points, from 90 percent to 83 percent, Pew found. More telling still, perhaps, is that in the last 3 years his favorability rating has declined by 8 more percentage points, to a record low of 75 percent.
Practicing Catholics who attend Mass at least once a week are the least supportive of him, giving him a favorability rating of just 71 percent. A mere 26 percent of all Catholics say that they view the pope “very favorably.”
As a point of comparison, the favorability rating for Pope John Paul II never fell below 91 percent during his 27-year pontificate and half of Catholics viewed him “very favorably.”
While the Pew Center did not offer an analysis of the causes of Francis’ loss of favor, the president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Right, Dr. Bill Donohue, suggested Tuesday that it is not difficult to connect the dots.
Donohue, a sociologist, notes that in the past three years the pope has endorsed civil unions and allowed the blessing of homosexual couples, leading to unprecedented pushback by clergy from all over the world.
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You’re one of those who denies the election of the current pope?
Frankie loves to trash the US of A, and that’s one reason why Americans soured on Dope Frankie.
He’s not even a Pope!
He’s not even saved.
His tail and horns are starting to show.
I’ll bet he hasn’t brought very many people to the Catholic Faith.
When were you born? If you were alive during the pontificate of the disastrous Paul VI, you have to admit that he’s at least in the running
For what it’s worth, at least the bear still defecates in the woods.
And lose his woke socialist B.S.
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