Here we go again blame the Catholics for voting for the RATS.
Yes there are Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims and Buddhists who vote for the RATS. But there are a hell of a lot of Catholics who despise them. One should only look to the yearly pro-life demonstrations in Washington,
That's what this article is about — those who do identify as Democrat even though the Dem platform runs completely counter to Catholic teachings. It's about the numbers overall. The chart below was from the Bush years; couldn't find one for Obama's election, but my guess is that it would have skewed even more Democrat among Catholics:
Pew research
Quite true. Nevertheless, Catholic hierarchy has been running interference on behalf of the Democratic Party since at least my seminary days in the 1960's. Likely, it's been much longer than that. That was when I started to pay attention.
Your observation remains axiomatic. I'm Catholic and lost all sympathy for Democrats sometime around 1969. It was shattered for all time in 1973 when every live birth became a cosmic failure for Democrats.
I would be interested in knowing why so many Cardinals and Bishops still want to run that interference since the foundation of the Democratic Party is made of platform planks anathema to what I understand as Catholic positions.