Poll: Majority of U.S. Catholics favor change

washingtonpost.com ^ | 2013/03/11 | Carol Morello and Peyton M. Craighill

[daniel1212]

A majority of American Roman Catholics consider the church out of touch with their views...

The new poll shows a greater yearning for change than when Benedict became pope in 2005. At about the time he was selected, fully half of American Catholics wanted the church to stick with its traditional policies; now, 38 percent say so...

The Post-ABC poll finds 55 percent of Catholics opposing the ban on married priests, while 58 percent oppose the prohibition on female priests. About a third say they want to keep the priesthood male and unmarried.

[ArrogantBustard]

Hmmmm ... The above graphic is from 2007.

Maybe the majority should quit finding minorities to scapegoat.

More data here

Your entire premise, that somehow it's all the Catholics' fault, is simply absurd. Worse, your attempt to divide folks into groups, and imply that each group votes overwhelmingly in a particular way, is deceptive and erroneous. Worse, you ignore overlaps between groups. If you think "homosexual" and "protestant" are mutually exclusive, from the POV of demographics, you're dead wrong and your analysis is worthless.

But that's OK ... you keep up with the garbage statistics and worthless analysis. You only discredit yourself.

[Gay State Conservative]

CINO

[daniel1212]

While it is typical of conservative Catholics to consider the liberal ones as non-Catholics, the reality is that Rome treats them as members in life and in death, even notorious public sinners which canon law speaks of causing scandal, such as Teddy K and Chavez .

[ansel12]

What “entire premise”, you just made that up.

I merely pointed out to a poster that “That polling of Catholics was done in the 2008 and 2012 elections, the results were pro-Obama.”

Your posts aren’t even relevant to what I said.

[ArrogantBustard]

Your posts aren’t even relevant to what I said.

Sure they are.

If you can't see it, that's your problem.

[ansel12]

Some people just love the way that Catholics vote, and the polling shows that they vote for the agenda that they support.

[ArrogantBustard]

Some people just love the way that Catholics vote

There you go again with the groupthink and the attempt to blame the foul, disgusting, and never-to-be-sufficiently-damned Catholics for everything.

Gee ... I have seen this sort of rhetoric before. Many times.

It doesn't improve with age.

But you just keep it up. All you do is discredit yourself.

[ansel12]

FR is a conservative political site, of course we know about the Catholic vote, it is one reason that conservatives are against immigration.

[trisham]

"To argue with those who have renounced the use and authority of reason is as futile as to administer medicine to the dead."

-Thomas Paine

:)

[Darren McCarty]

Here’s a newsflash. Not everyone that calls himself or herself Catholic IS Catholic.

[ArrogantBustard]

Quite so. Thank you.

I have smoked him out, though. #48 is very interesting.

[trisham]

Agreed.

[ansel12]

Yes they are, members of the Catholic church (meaning of course normal, baptized Catholics).

[Ann Archy]

Really Evangelicals NOT voting by 4 MILLION this past election are why we have OBAMA!!!!! They just couldn’t vote for a MORMON!! Give me a BREAK!!!

[ansel12]

Posting behind freeper’s backs, not very nice.

I take it that you two support the left’s immigration agenda.

[trisham]

If I had anything at all to say to you, I would have already said it.

[ansel12]

Evangelicals voted 79% republican and are the most pro-life, pro-marriage, pro-republican voters in America.

Why do you want a break? What do they have to do with this thread, or the pro-abortion Catholic vote?

[ansel12]

Try to follow FR guidelines and you could also explain why you seemed to indicate support for the left’s immigration agenda.

[trisham]

Please see post #56. Thank you.

[svcw]

Well, thank goodness Dan, that God Almighty is the same today, as He was yesterday and will be tomorrow.
I agree, if you (the royal you), don’t like the the group you belong to leave, do not ask the group to change.