According to data from a brand new survey, a majority of American Catholics are absolutely fine and dandy with abortion being completely legal in all or most cases, though support for this diabolical procedure is far lower among Catholics who regularly attend Mass. This is absolutely appalling and disturbing, not to mention it goes against the official teaching of the Catholic Church. The real question is, why aren’t priests and bishops doing more to help folks see the truth about this demonically-influenced procedure?
After all, abortion has been around since the dawn of time. In ancient biblical times, the procedure was done as a sacrifice to pagan deities such as Baal and Molech in order to have a good crop. That is the same reason it’s done today. People get abortions to ensure they don’t have the financial drain of raising a family and so they can enjoy sexual pleasure without consequences.
According to a report published by The Christian Post:
The Pew Research Center released a blog titled “9 Facts about U.S. Catholics” on Friday. One fact included on the list, based on research conducted from March 27 through April 2, 2023, found that 61% of Catholics living in the United States believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases. This is a slightly smaller percentage than the number of U.S. adults who said the same (62%).
Support for abortion differs among subgroups within the sample of Catholic adults surveyed. A slightly higher share of Hispanic Catholics (63%) favor keeping abortion legal in all or most cases than their white Catholic counterparts (59%).
Conversely, the difference in support for abortion among Catholics who attend Mass weekly and those who go less frequently is much starker. Only 34% of Catholics who go to Mass every week think abortion should be legal in all or most circumstances. Meanwhile, 68% of Catholics who attend Mass once a month or less or not at all support legal abortion in all or most cases.
Charlotte Lozier Institute pro-life scholar Michael New posted a response to the survey’s findings on X.
“Church attendance tells us far more about abortion attitudes than denomination,” he stated.
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Conservative commentator Carol Swain, who is a former professor from Vanderbilt University, cited the findings of the survey as evidence that “Pope Francis and progressive public Catholics like Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Democrat President Joe Biden have been disastrous for orthodox Christians of all denominations.”
Swain’s comments suggest that Pelosi and Biden, self-professed practicing Catholics who support abortion despite its direct contradiction to the teachings of their faith, are causing many of their fellow Catholics to stray from church teaching on the matter.
The report measured the share of U.S. Catholics who attend Mass weekly at 28% while finding that 10% of American Catholics go to church once a month, and the remaining 62% attend Mass a few times a year or less. Catholic Church teaching, as laid out in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, declares that “direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law” and that “formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense.”
Other findings revealed by the survey from the Pew Research Center show that partisan affiliation is also a big factor in the level of support Catholics demonstrate toward legal abortion. A total of 43 percent of Republican Catholics support abortion in all or most circumstances, compared to the 78 percent of Catholic Democrats.
This closely reflects the division among Americans on the issue of abortions, as 40 percent of the GOP believe the practice should be legal in all or most cases, while 84 percent of Democrats said the same thing.
Pew Research Center also released data examining U.S. Catholics’ views about Pope Francis. The pontiff has drawn the ire of some conservative Catholics over his restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass and the Vatican’s recent document enabling priests to give blessings to same-sex couples. While a majority of U.S. Catholics (75%) have a favorable opinion of the pontiff, views about Francis vary based on partisan affiliation.
Specifically, 89% of Catholic Democrats have a favorable view of the pontiff compared to 63% of Catholic Republicans. The opinion poll measuring Catholics’ views about Francis is based on responses collected from Feb. 13–25.
Abortion should be made illegal in all states and in all honesty, needs to be totally criminalized with charges for both doctors who perform the procedure and the women who have it done.