The Pew Survey’s Most Sobering Result
The Pew Survey’s Most Sobering Result Now that a Pew Survey shows Catholics favoring Obama by a 15-point margin, it is time to point out what is truly significant about the survey results. It isn’t …More
The Pew Survey’s Most Sobering Result
Now that a Pew Survey shows Catholics favoring Obama by a 15-point margin, it is time to point out what is truly significant about the survey results.
It isn’t significant that those who attend Mass monthly or yearly favor Obama 53 to 39 percent or that those who attend Mass seldom or never favor him by a 61 to 32 percent margin. These things, based on a combination of demographics and obvious spiritual apathy are to be expected.
... the most damning result of the poll is that Catholics who attend Mass at least weekly favor Mitt Romney by only nine percent (51 to 42).
This compares with nearly a 30 point gap the other way for those who attend Mass very rarely or not at all.
Why isn’t there a comparable gap against Obama by regularly practicing Catholics? This represents a colossal Catholic failure.
...while the bishops have spoken out strongly on religious liberty, they have spoken out again and again on so many other purely prudential topics that …More
Now that a Pew Survey shows Catholics favoring Obama by a 15-point margin, it is time to point out what is truly significant about the survey results.
It isn’t significant that those who attend Mass monthly or yearly favor Obama 53 to 39 percent or that those who attend Mass seldom or never favor him by a 61 to 32 percent margin. These things, based on a combination of demographics and obvious spiritual apathy are to be expected.
... the most damning result of the poll is that Catholics who attend Mass at least weekly favor Mitt Romney by only nine percent (51 to 42).
This compares with nearly a 30 point gap the other way for those who attend Mass very rarely or not at all.
Why isn’t there a comparable gap against Obama by regularly practicing Catholics? This represents a colossal Catholic failure.
...while the bishops have spoken out strongly on religious liberty, they have spoken out again and again on so many other purely prudential topics that …More
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Sad, but in a word it demonstrates that the majority of rank in file Catholics are not only spiritually apathetic, but willfully indifferent. They have become so secularized, protestantized, liberalized, and busy with the things of the world that they just don't care, even if their Church is being dismantled. If the world gets to disconcerting, rather than praying the rosary they flee to the protective …More
Sad, but in a word it demonstrates that the majority of rank in file Catholics are not only spiritually apathetic, but willfully indifferent. They have become so secularized, protestantized, liberalized, and busy with the things of the world that they just don't care, even if their Church is being dismantled. If the world gets to disconcerting, rather than praying the rosary they flee to the protective cocoons of their living rooms to play X-box.
