The pope is concerned about climate change. How do U.S. Catholics feel about it?
71% of Hispanic Catholics see climate change as an extremely or very serious problem, compared with 49% of White, non-Hispanic Catholics.
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71% of Hispanic Catholics see climate change as an extremely or very serious problem, compared with 49% of White, non-Hispanic Catholics.
Catholics are one of the largest religious groups in the United States, outnumbering any single Protestant denomination.
In the United States, 21% of adults overall say they fast for certain periods during holy times.
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.
Between 2010 and 2018, the share of Chinese adults who identify with Christianity remained stable at about 2%.
58% of U.S. adults say they do not believe “we are living in the end times” – the destruction of the world as we know it.
About three-quarters of U.S. Catholics (76%) say abortion should be illegal in some cases but legal in others.
About a third of U.S. parents with children under 18 say it’s extremely or very important to them that their kids share their religious beliefs.
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.
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