9 facts about U.S. Catholics
Catholics are one of the largest religious groups in the United States, outnumbering any single Protestant denomination.
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Catholics are one of the largest religious groups in the United States, outnumbering any single Protestant denomination.
Some 17% of U.S. adults regularly attend religious services in person and watch them online or on TV.
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.
U.S. adults disagree over whether legal restrictions on abortion are an effective way to reduce the number of abortions in the U.S.
Among White Americans, worship service attendance remains highly correlated with presidential vote choice.
Most U.S. adults do not believe that requests for religious exemptions from the COVID-19 vaccine are sincere.
A majority of Republicans along with a smaller but substantial majority of Democrats believe in heaven, hell or some other form of afterlife.
Churches and other houses of worship increasingly are holding services the way they did before the COVID-19 outbreak began.
Republicans and Democrats’ opinions differ on many aspects of the outbreak, including views about religious practices during the pandemic.
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