New Poll Asks Catholics What They Believe About Abortion

The National Catholic Register ^ | 2/24/20 | Matt Hadro

[marshmallow]

The poll of 1,512 Catholic registered voters was conducted between Jan. 28 - Feb. 4, 2020, and surveyed U.S. Catholic opinion on a range of subjects, including political affiliation, preferred presidential candidate, the morality of abortion, and religious practices.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — While the Catholic Church teaches that procuring an abortion is always immoral, a majority of U.S. Catholics do not believe abortion is intrinsically evil and say it should be legal in all or most cases.

According to a RealClear Opinion Research poll sponsored by EWTN and published on Monday, 47% of Catholics in the U.S. believe abortion is “intrinsically evil,” while a 53% hold otherwise.

A majority — 51% — say that abortion should be legal in all or most cases, with 31% saying it should be legal except for late-term cases and 20% saying it should always be legal.

The poll of 1,512 Catholic registered voters was conducted between Jan. 28 - Feb. 4, 2020, and surveyed U.S. Catholic opinion on a range of subjects, including political affiliation, preferred presidential candidate, the morality of abortion, and religious practices.

U.S. Catholics were slightly less likely to support legal abortion than Americans overall. According to 2019 Gallup polling, 25% of Americans think abortion should be “legal under any circumstances,” while 20% of Catholics take that position, according to Monday’s poll.

But while 21% of Americans believe abortion should be “illegal in all” circumstances according to the Gallup poll, only 11% of Catholics think so.

Michael New, a visiting professor of social research and political science at the Catholic University of America, told CNA that religious practice, not self-identification, is the strongest predictor of opinions on abortion.

“What is a much stronger predictor” for Catholics, he said, is “attendance at Mass.”

Among Catholics attending Mass at least weekly, the majority......

[Mrs. Don-o]

Now you see the contradiction. If Jesus started the Church, He wouldn't abandon it, because it is the Bride of Christ. Scripture speaks of Him calling her to be reconciled as His spouse, purifying her, removing every spot, stain and wrinkle, and everything of that kind, and presenting her to Himself in the end, glorious and perfect.

He didn't take up a hip-hop ethical worldview and decide to "dump the bitch".

Put another way, the whole Church has not been pulled into heresy. And will not be. The Church is the Body of Christ, not any other Tom, Dick or Harry, and not even the Body of Bergoglio.

[Elsie]

Point him out again.

I didn't see the squirrel this time either.

[Elsie]

Now you see the contradiction. If Jesus started the Church, He wouldn't abandon it, because it is the Bride of Christ.

I've ALWAYS seen the contradiction! If Jesus started the CATHOLIC Church, He wouldn't be chastising it before the bible was even finished!!

[Mrs. Don-o]

A false assumption. Jesus chastised all whom He loved: Peter, James, and John more than anyone.

Paul chastised every one of the local churches he planted ("You foolish Galatians!") --- and he had a whole LOT of rebuke for the Corinthians. He brings their divisions right out in front of their faces, tells them how much he has worried over them, prayed for them, wept for their sake--- and do they appreciate the necessary correction? It seems questionable at times: "Though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved" (II Cor. 12:15).

But does he ever say "Leave that church"? Nope.

He understands that you struggle for the Bride of Christ. You don't kick her to the curb.