American Catholic Laity Poll, 2011

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[daniel1212]

American Catholic Laity Poll, 2011

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The American Catholic Laity Poll contains many questions on pressing issues in the Catholic Church--views of the hierarchy, political positions of the church, women's roles in the church, what it takes to be a "good Catholic," how churches can respond to the current shortage of priests, and the effects of sex abuse in the church. Other questions also concern Mass attendance, prayer, Communion, and demographic characteristics. This poll contains respondents from many different generations of Catholics, and it also includes an oversample of Hispanic Catholics.

[Elsie]

More than once a day 14.6

Mary's favorite song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmZdvVnMXCc

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Let's try some easy math:

There are approximately 1.2 billion Catholics world wide;

If merely 1% of them  'ask' Mary for help just once each day;

that means that 12 million separate prayers are headed Mary's direction every day.

Given that there are 86,400 seconds per day... (24 hours times 60 minutes times 60 seconds)

...that means that Mary has to handle approximately 139 'requests' per second!

Purty good fer someone NOT 'divine'!

[Elsie]

What we have here; is a failure to communicate (the teachings of the Church)

Poorly Catechized is the term I hear most often...

[Elsie]

Anyone could see that as a blatant attempt to find out someone’s denomination.

Wesleyan

[Elsie]

I think I Made someone happy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxF-FeOCxlg

[daniel1212]

To be fair did the stats include money raised by church Bingo:)

No, but Bingo in Heaven under the category of scriptural teachings based upon the premise that,

if there is nothing in Scripture that directly refutes it, then that belief can be considered scriptural.

[daniel1212]

What we have here; is a failure to communicate (the teachings of the Church) Poorly Catechized is the term I hear most often...

Yes, as if RCs are expected to ignore how the popes and prelates convey their understanding of RC teaching by their actions, as Teddy K. Caths examples, while for many Trad. RCs Poorly Catechized means that of teaching V2 contrary to their interpretations of past RC teaching, while for others it means teaching contrary to their interpretations of V2, while both censure Prots for relying on interpreting unchanging Scripture as their supreme authority.

[mrobisr]

While these numbers are truly sad it gives me hope that we now more than ever can save some of those lost souls. Lesson learned is follow the Word of God (not denominational views)and listen to the Holy Spirit or you will end up like the Church of Thyatira. Scripture tells us that it will only get darker for them, so let us Pray for their veil to be lifted.

[xone]

Wow what rebellion!!!

I wonder how many denominations that survey makes?

[daniel1212]

Scripture tells us that it will only get darker for them, so let us Pray for their veil to be lifted. Indeed.

[mrobisr]

So lets play your game and say that Prot numbers are worst, so wow now what, you feel so much better that you will have more company in Hell! Listen to what you are saying either/or is not acceptable and repulsive. Bragging about you/us being in 1,000,000th place and us/you being in 1,000,001th place makes us both horribly lost.

Isaiah 64:6 New International Version (NIV)

6 All of us have become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;
we all shrivel up like a leaf,
and like the wind our sins sweep us away.

[Salvation]

Why are you saying this about Catholics in hell?

Source please because I think the numbers are mistaken.

[daniel1212]

Yet 77.4% think a person can be a good Catholic Without obeying the Church hierarchy’s teaching on birth control.

I just realized the answer to 63) Q12D is missing:
Can a person be a good Catholic: Without obeying the Church hierarchy’s teaching regarding abortion?
1) Yes, can be a good Catholic 857 59.4
2) No, cannot be a good Catholic 562 39.0

[BlueDragon]

...and

There are more than a mere few here on FR -- who blame the entire mess on "Protestants" (whoever those people are) including (get this) pointing fingers of blame at the principle of solo scriptura, itself --blaming THAT for the culture we live in being increasingly falling away from God, becoming increasingly immoral.

Taking the written Scriptures as authoritative and truth, superlative to the traditions which arose either; chiefly, or only in part from the Holy Writ --- is the real problem --- according to more than a few of our FRomish FRiends, as for that one narrow point (sola scriptura).

Do they not know that when they take that position, they (those FRomans) are in tacit agreement with the most noisily ungodly of our present day society, from the not-so-noisy but underwhelming & disappointing lukewarm Christians who say they believe, but for whom the Gospels can scarcely said to have been trans-formative, to the agnostic who says they accept the apparent wisdom of the moral teachings to be only that, moral teachings which are rooted quite likely in not much more than superstition & myth, all the way down the list to the militant atheist ---for most all of those groups speak daily against the principle of Scripture being superlative over all, blaming religion and the Bible (in the case of the Roman Catholic perhaps -- sola scriptura not among his own religion's traditions --as those of his own "tradition" often assert) as a primary & major cause of all of mankind's present downfallen and overall sinful condition?

The Law revived and I died? Ok, I get it, it slays me too. Things truly are, tough all over...

It's too bad so few (speaking here of the culture more widely) appear to be able grasp more fully what Paul the Apostle meant by that, and what else he was presenting as the cure. It must be spiritually discerned, perhaps?

I mean...one can get most of it as mental exercise...but for the Word to work down within a soul, the Spirit using that even deep within an individual to strike at the roots of whatever sin there be which could found there, the Word of God sharper than any two-edged sword dividing even between the bone and the marrow --- that is no mere mental and moral set of principles and exercises.

One can go quite far with it perhaps, while still lacking much in the way of depth of spirit concerning these things, yet that results in there being an outside set of Law hovering over an individual --rather than working from within.

To that we say; one simply must be born again. (John 3:5)

Somehow, it's the bible believer's fault?

Society increasingly rejects allowing the Scriptures be as lamp to light our paths --- and somehow it's all the fault of those whom emphasize those same Scriptures? -- instead of those whom distance themselves from the same???

How does that really work, anyway?

Bitter Clinger rant mode /off

[BlueDragon]

woops, i commited an error. a bad typo.

It should have been sola scriptura not "solo".

The solo kind can be a problem, whereas taking the entire Word altogether is the solution, including the need for the Lord, by His spirit to assist in opening the written Word to speak so we may actually hear -- and be converted.

No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.

signed Jesus