72 percent of Catholics say Communion sanctions improper

This article appears to support the proposition that three-quarters of professed Catholics do not know and do not understand the Catholic Faith. This article also support previous polls indicating that nearly 70% of professed Catholics do not believe in the real, true, and substantial presence of our Lord, Jesus Christ, in the Holy Eucharist.

Nearly three-quarters of Catholics oppose the idea of church leaders denying Communion to politicians whose public positions on abortion and other topics contradict church teachings, according to a new Pew poll.

The largest segment to agree that such action was proper was 39 percent of self-identified conservative Republicans. Forty-seven percent of this group said it was improper and 14 percent said they didn't know.

The largest percentages of smaller groups of respondents to say church leaders acted improperly by denying Communion to politicians were Catholic Democrats, at 81 percent, followed by Catholic women and self-described liberal Democrats, at 80 percent.

The poll also asked people's opinions about embryonic stem-cell research. A narrow majority, 52 percent, said it is more important to conduct stem-cell research than it is to stop such research in the interest of not destroying the embryos.

Read it and weep...Pray for conversions of "Catholics" to the faith.

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