Posted on 12/18/2024 6:02:11 PM PST by ebb tide
A new study published by Rasmussen Reports indicates that favorability ratings of Pope Francis for adult Americans are at an all-time low.
The study, which was released last Thursday, was conducted via an online and phone survey of 1,346 Americans.
The report found that only 41% of American adults have a favorable impression of Pope Francis, down from 61% in 2013 when he was elected.
Thirty-one percent (31%) of respondents said they viewed him unfavorably, up from 12% in 2013.
Fifty-three percent (53%) of Democrats who were polled had a favorable opinion of Francis compared with 36% of Republicans and 34% of independents.
Thirty-five percent (35%) of Democrats also said that Francis has been “better” than other recent popes and only 13% of Republicans said he was.
Rasmussen’s findings broadly contrast with what the Pew Research Center found in April when it reported that 75% of U.S. Catholics view Pope Francis favorably.
While that figure is above average, there has been a noticeable downward trend in recent years. A 2021 Pew study found that his favorability among U.S. Catholics was 83%. In 2015, it was 90%.
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He’s a big hit with homos, trannies and other heretics. His peeps.
He’s a Commie, Jim.
I’m not Catholic, but I’m not surprised at all.
Pope Marx
...and the normies leave for the Orthodox Church.
Satanic Church?
Francis was installed by demonic Obama and witch Hillary and the WEF crowd to help usher in the NWO.
The same with Keir Starmer in the UK, the same way they and China had hoped to install that reprobate perverted stooge Tim Walz into office to rubber stamp the USA into the CCP surveillance state model for the NWO.
They have not given up and they will not sit on the sidelines for four years to wait out President Trump. They are right now making decisions and scheming in secret to keep their plans on track.
I am Catholic and except for Easter, I’ve barely been to mass the past four years. I proudly did not miss attending mass for years- through college, when i was single, when i was on vacation. I would go to mass religiously.
I refuse to go as long as this hypocritical coward is in charge of the church.
I want the Pope's ratings among Catholics.
I don’t think he cares in the slightest. He’s a typical liberation theologist - sees the developed western world as evil, and the third/developing world as virtuous.
I’d be where you are if I hadn’t drifted into the traditional Latin Mass subculture a dozen or so years ago. It’s the only segment of the Catholic Church for which I can envision some sort of positive future.
He’s a freaking commie!
Frankie is a gay commie.
As not-a-Catholic, I appreciate it when the Catholic Church is Catholic and defend Western Civilization.
Frankie is the antithesis of that.
Frankie was plucked from the bowels for Sodomy specifically because he is a queer ... just like the days of Sodom ... and the many claim this is the ‘church’ - bride of Jesus ... bunch of lunatics or as Christ said Lot’s wife!!!
And thus one of satan’s most effective agents.
Pope Paul is the Joe Biden of Popes. Could be worse. He could be the Hunter Biden of Popes.
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