Like Americans overall, Catholics vary in their abortion views, with regular Mass attenders most opposed
About three-quarters of U.S. Catholics (76%) say abortion should be illegal in some cases but legal in others.
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About three-quarters of U.S. Catholics (76%) say abortion should be illegal in some cases but legal in others.
Most Americans are spiritual or religious in some way and many also say their spirituality and level of religiosity have changed over time.
Most Black Catholic churchgoers are racial minorities in their congregations, unlike White and Hispanic Catholics – and Black Protestants
Evangelical Protestant adults under 40 are more likely than older evangelicals to say climate change is an extremely or very serious problem.
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.
Highly religious Americans are much more likely to see society in those terms, while nonreligious people tend to see more ambiguity.
Self-identified Christians make up 63% of the U.S. population in 2021, down from 75% a decade ago.
Immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa tend to be more religious than U.S.-born Black adults or immigrants from the Caribbean.
75% of Black Americans say that opposing racism is essential to their faith or sense of morality, a view that extends across faith traditions.
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