The Pope agrees with you.
Posted on 10/15/2013 4:17:12 PM PDT by redleghunter
By Mary Wisniewski, Reuters
Pope Francis' comments that the Catholic Church should not focus so much on homosexuality, abortion and contraception have met with strong approval from U.S. Catholics, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Friday.
Sixty-eight percent of American Catholics agree with comments the Pope made to that effect in an interview published last month in the Jesuit magazine Civilta Cattolica, while 23 percent disagreed, according to the poll.
There was little difference in opinion between observant and less-observant Catholics, women and men, and among age groups, the poll found.
There was little difference in opinion between observant and less-observant Catholics, women and men, and among age groups, the poll found.
American Catholics also like their new pope, with 89 percent having a "favorable" or "very favorable" opinion, and only 4 percent voicing an unfavorable opinion, the poll found.
"Maybe they were just waiting for a Jesuit," said Maurice Carroll, director of the Hamden, Connecticut-based Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. Francis is the first pope from the religious order of the Jesuits, an order known for its intellectuals and iconoclasts. In the interview, Francis reaffirmed traditional church teachings, but said the church must "find a new balance" or risk seeing its entire moral edifice collapse "like a house of cards."
The poll also found that 60 percent of American Catholics support women's ordination - though the Pope had recently reaffirmed the ban on women's ordination. Support is highest among those who attend services less frequently and Catholics over the age of 65.
The survey also found that Catholic opinion on abortion is similar to the opinion of all American adults - with 52 percent of Catholics saying abortion should be legal in all or most cases, compared with 53 percent of the general public.
The poll surveyed 1,776 American adults, with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.3 percentage points, and 392 Catholics with a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.
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Don’t care what the Pope says, abortion is murder, homosexuality is a abomination.
Bring it into my Church and if no one else leaves, I will.
The Pope agrees with you.
In other words, Catholics love the media’s version of Francis. The soft-on-birth-control-and-abortion Pope.
But he is definitely a loose cannon and a Mediocre Communicator.
Benedict said exactly the same thing, but he made it crystal clear that it was REPORTERS who were obsessed with birth control, women’s ordination, abortion, and homosexuality.
The statistics on so-called “Catholic” opinion on abortion and birth control are an indictment of the bishops we have had since 1950 or before. And an indictment of Rome, where they were appointed.
The bishops have been chosen, not from among the best, but from among the worst priests. Four percent of priests have been accused of sex abuse during the last 60 years. Sixty-six percent of bishops covered up for them.
“Don’t care what the Pope says, abortion is murder, homosexuality is a abomination.”
The pope has never said otherwise.
I'm a Catholic, and that's a failure of the Church. It's shameful. Give the Muslims credit for one thing. You don't see so many of their followers spitting on the teachings of their faith.
Hmm. Actually, many of them do. Otherwise, we would all be dead.
The Muslims do cling tightly to their false gospel. However you will find most Muslims seem to lean more to the Hadith than the Qur’an. The Shias more towards the teachings and commentary of the imams. So it is a religion that has strayed from the original Qur’an. This is evidenced by how modern Muslim nations treat The People of The Book—Jews and Christians. The Qur’an teaches that once subdued Jews and Christians pay the Jizya and are to be left alone. Instead these Muslim nations defer to tradition and the Hadith.
I understood B16. He was clear and morally conservative. I think he stepped down because he knew how firmly entrenched the liberal wing was in the Vatican and hoped Frank1 would clean house. Bad move.
islamism should be totally destroyed.
Any muslim can, and likely will go islamist when the SHTF.
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