[Wallace T.]

My guess is that the pro-Obama majority among Catholics comes from people who have not attended a Mass except maybe at Christmas or Easter, but who call themselves Catholic because they were baptized as such. Regular church attenders of any faith tend to be more politically conservative than casual attenders or nominal believers.

[wmfights]

Regular church attenders of any faith tend to be more politically conservative than casual attenders or nominal believers.

I believe the polling data supports that.

The problem is the RCC looks to govt to implement it's goal of "social justice". Having been born as part of the state and having a long history of using the state to try to accomplish it's social engineering the idea of approaching all govt solutions from the prism of "how does this enhance individual liberty" is alien.

The casual, or less discerning RC's, are predisposed to look to govt to solve all things because that has been a core belief from very early on. Until that changes this church will always lean left.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

My guess is that the pro-Obama majority among Catholics comes from people who have not attended a Mass except maybe at Christmas or Easter, but who call themselves Catholic because they were baptized as such.

I would have been more inclined to believe that if I had not witnessed the goose-step around here following this pope's agenda for world socialism and a global authority "with teeth." Many RCs on FR give every indication of attending mass regularly.

As Paul might have said "All conservatism is not of conservatism."

[Petronski]

...the pro-Obama majority among Catholics...

There is none.