I'm not talking about running the church as a democracy, I'm simply pointing out that opinions should be known. (I wouldn't put any faith in a AP poll of them though)
I didn't read the opening....I can surmise that the
network is going to get their homoabortiongaycrap moving.. after they got the wimps in this country going for
their halfass agenda...This Pope John Paul ll- upheld
the teaching os the Church and thenext one will also..
just tell these nitwits..to get lost. Jake
It is worthwhile to track the prevailing opinions of Catholics in the nation and around the world, but really only as a means of highlighting the areas in which the clergy and laypersons of a certain region need to focus their efforts in education. One, it is folly to assume that all Catholics around the world think as American Catholics do. In addition, the Church should not lower its moral standards simply because many American Catholics don't want to have to live up to those standards. If that many Catholics in the U.S. want the Church to so drastically change itself, it says more about the nature of Americans than that of the Church.
So I do think there is some value in polling the opinions of American Catholics, but likely not in the way you mean for me to do so.