Posted on 10/08/2013 2:47:48 AM PDT by ClaytonP
A majority of Catholics in the United States who attend Mass weekly support same-sex marriage and the ordination of women to the priesthood, according to a Quinnipiac University survey released October 4.
The survey found that 56% of Americans, 53% of Catholics who attend Mass weekly, and 65% of Catholics who attend Mass less frequently would support “a law in your state that would allow same-sex couples to get married.” Support was stronger among Catholics of ages 18-49 (64%) than ages 50-64 (62%) or 65+ (46%).
According to the survey, 72% of Catholic women back same-sex marriage, while 49% of Catholic men do.
The survey also found that 52% of Catholics who attend Mass weekly, and 66% who attend less frequently, favor the ordination of women to the priesthood. Support was stronger among Catholics of age 65+ (68%) than ages 50-64 (64%) or 18-49 (57%). By a slight (2%) margin, women are more likely to favor women’s ordination than men are.
According to the poll, 53% of Americans believe that abortion should be legal in most or all cases, while 49% believe it should be illegal in most or all cases. By a 61%-32% margin, Catholics who attend Mass weekly believe abortion should be illegal in most or all cases; by a 64%-29% margin, Catholics who attend Mass less frequently believe that abortion should be legal in most or all cases. By a slight (2%) margin, women are more likely to oppose abortion than men are.
93% of Catholics who attend Mass weekly, and 85% who attend less frequently, have a favorable or very favorable opinion of Pope Francis.
Jesus wept.
“A majority of Catholics in the United States who attend Mass weekly support same-sex marriage and the ordination of women to the priesthood,”
So,,,, are they really Catholics?
The Pope has a field close to home in which to proselytize and convert.
They are just “following their conscious.”
Does that mean that most Catholic churches are not doing a very good job tending the flocks?
Our side is losing the propoganda war. Its as simple as that.
No, the gay lobby is just doing a better job of putting their point of view forward. They’re winning, we’re losing.
QU is hard left front group set up retired CBS left wing newsroom Commies.
why does anyone believe push polls from them.?
they are always dead wrong but never called out for it!
I dunno about that...were those questions asked to the respondents in that exact language?
In this day and age wouldn’t you think so-called practicing Catholics that held those heretical views would become ‘word of faith’ Christians, Baptists or another feel good about our inequities denomination rather than endure the guilt?
I just wonder if these ‘practicing Catholics’ have statues of baal around for good luck too?
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Headline should read “majority of Catholics in the United States who attend Mass weekly are Satanists.” The apostasy is complete and the anti-Christ is among us.
I was upset until I saw it was a Quinnipiac poll! They are usually greatly canted in a direction they want opinion to go. Catholics who attend mass regularly still maintain the idea that homosexuality is a sin and a perversion.
This may be anecdotal, but from what I’ve seen the hierarchy of the Catholic Church is Conservative while its flock is Leftist, while the hierarchy of the United Methodist Church is Leftist and its flock (in the South anyway) is biblically based and Conservative.
This may be anecdotal, but from what I’ve seen the hierarchy of the Catholic Church is Conservative while its flock is Leftist, while the hierarchy of the United Methodist Church is Leftist and its flock (in the South anyway) is biblically based and Conservative.
These people are not Roman Catholics.
Rather they attend the Novus Ordo ‘service’ which was promulgated subsequent to the formation of a new religion as a result of the Vatican II fiasco. This confab gave modernists everything they wanted....and more!
Too bad those who still hold fast to the tenets, rubrics and liturgy and regularly attend true masses in chapels and churches all across America and the world couldn’t be polled.
These Catholics believe that the string of popes following Pius XII were in serious error by not correcting by eradication this new religion.
Now they’re confronted with a pope who is actually much worse than those who preceded him as he is making the serious flawed Church an utter confusion. His writings and interviews have shown him to be a figure, not of mystery, but one that revels in the new religion. He makes a mockery of the Ten Commandments as well as the rest of the Holy Bible that has been the cornerstone of Catholicism for eons.
Detestable perverted sodomites.
I wonder why we don’t see these questions asked of Muslims? I wonder if they’re having the same results, if not, why not.
From the poll site:
“Catholic opinion on abortion is similar of the opinions of all American adults:
16 percent of Catholics say abortion should be legal in all cases, compared to 19 percent of all Americans;
36 percent of Catholics say abortion should be legal in most cases, compared to 34 percent of all Americans;
21 percent of Catholics say abortion should be illegal in most cases, compared to 23 percent of all Americans;
21 percent of Catholics say abortion should be illegal in all cases, compared to 16 percent of all Americans.
I am a woman that attends mass “less frequently” I will admit, and I don’t believe this survey for one minute!
With a large Catholic family on husbands as well as my side, I can’t think of one actual Catholic that believes in abortion (of course we’ve got the non-Catholic airhead SIL), and the few that believe in civil unions for gays don’t believe in gay marriage, and think the ceremony should never be performed in a church by a clergy member.
There are some that think women could be Priests, but they are relatively indifferent to the idea.
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