Two-thirds of U.S. Catholics unaware of pope’s new restrictions on traditional Latin Mass
Weekly Mass-goers and Catholic Republicans express higher levels of disapproval of the pope’s new restrictions.
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Weekly Mass-goers and Catholic Republicans express higher levels of disapproval of the pope’s new restrictions.
Catholics are one of the largest religious groups in the United States, outnumbering any single Protestant denomination.
71% of Hispanic Catholics see climate change as an extremely or very serious problem, compared with 49% of White, non-Hispanic Catholics.
Pope Francis’ picks for the College of Cardinals have tilted the leadership structure away from its historic European base and toward countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
About three-quarters of U.S. Catholics (76%) say abortion should be illegal in some cases but legal in others.
While Biden’s rating is still low among White Christians, positive ratings also fell among Black Protestants and the religiously unaffiliated.
Churches and other houses of worship increasingly are holding services the way they did before the COVID-19 outbreak began.
Immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa tend to be more religious than U.S.-born Black adults or immigrants from the Caribbean.
63% of U.S adults have a “very” or “mostly” favorable opinion of Pope Francis, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in March.
Among White Americans, worship service attendance remains highly correlated with presidential vote choice.
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