“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; and before you came forth out of the womb I sanctified you, saith the LORD.” – Jeremiah 1:5
“Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is His reward.” – Psalm 127:3
THE CHRISTIAN POST reports: The majority of American Catholics think abortion should be legal in all or most cases, although support for abortion is lower among the Catholics who attend Mass regularly, according to a survey.
The Pew Research Center released a blog titled “9 Facts about U.S. Catholics” on Friday. One fact included on the list, based on research conducted from March 27th through April 2nd, 2023, found that 61% of Catholics living in the U.S. believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. This is a slightly smaller percentage than the number of U.S. adults who said the same (62%).
Support for abortion differs among the subgroups within the sample of Catholics surveyed. A higher share of Hispanic Catholics (63%) favor keeping abortion legal in all or most cases than their white Catholic counterparts (59%).
Conversely, the difference in support for abortion among Catholics who attend Mass weekly and those who attend less frequently is much starker. Only 34% of Catholics who go to Mass every week think abortion should be legal in all or most circumstances. Meanwhile, 68% of Catholics who attend Mass once a month or less or not at all support legal abortion in all or most cases.
Michael New, a pro-life scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, reacted to this particular finding from the survey on X Friday. “Church attendance tells us far more about abortion attitudes than denomination,” he said.
Carol Swain, a conservative commentator and former Vanderbilt professor, cited the report’s findings as evidence that “Pope Francis and progressive public Catholics like Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and the Democrat President Joe Biden have been disastrous for orthodox Christians of all denominations.”
Swain’s comments suggest that Pelosi and Biden, self-professed practicing Catholics who support abortion despite its direct contradiction to the teachings of their faith, are causing many of their fellow Catholics to stray from church teaching on the matter.
The report measured the share of U.S. Catholics who attend Mass weekly at 28% while finding that just 10% of American Catholics go to church once a month, and the remaining 62% attend Mass a few times a year or less. The Church teaching, laid out in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, declares that “abortion, willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law” and “formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense.”… (Continue reading)
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This isn’t about how many times Catholics or Christians go to mass or church. It is about keeping with what the Word of God says: Thou shall not kill.
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