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Sunday, March 10, 2013

Even if they don’t follow its rules, Catholics stick with their church




Dmitry Lovetsky/AP - The full moon is seen above the St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, early Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013.



By Lisa Miller, Published: March 1


American Catholics are famously indifferent to the directives of their leaders. They don’t follow the rule book on much of anything: birth control, legal abortion, premarital sex, divorce.

They wish, by a wide margin, that their bishops were talking more about social justice issues such as poverty and less about culture-war issues such as abortion. When asked what matters to them most about being Catholic, they overwhelmingly say the resurrection of Jesus, not Vatican authority or celibate, male priests.


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1 comment:

  1. Arsenio A. Lembert Jr.4:32 PM

    Even if they don’t follow its rules, Catholics stick with their church

    Catchy title, right? Sounds familiar?

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