Large Majorities of Catholics Satisfied with Pope, Church Leaders
About three-quarters of U.S. Catholics say they are satisfied with the leadership of the Pope.
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About three-quarters of U.S. Catholics say they are satisfied with the leadership of the Pope.
Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Mexico today for his first visit to a Spanish-speaking country in Latin America. Approximately 8.8% of the world’s Catholics live in Mexico, the second largest Catholic population in the world.
Evangelical leaders around the world view secularism as the biggest threat to evangelical Christianity.
Roughly a quarter of former Catholics who are now religiously unaffiliated say the clergy sexual abuse scandals were a reason for their leaving the Church.
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More than a third (37%) of papal coverage focused on the sex abuse scandal.
That’s the percentage of the U.S. public that thinks that Pope Benedict XVI is doing an excellent or good job at promoting good relations with other major religions; this compares with 46% who say he is doing only a fair or poor job.
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