Catholics are every bit as diverse as any other sort of voters out there, with conservative Democrats and moderates.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
So often, generalizations don't apply to Catholic voters. Catholics are concerned about the war, the economy, about issues like abortion, issues pertaining to the budget and funding Medicaid and Medicare and what happens to the environment.
Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law.
I grew up in a very Catholic household. We were pretty conservative.
Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.
I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA.
Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion.
I can't speak to the differences within the Catholic Church.
Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.
I'm Jewish; I'm not religious at all, and I wouldn't pretend to know anything about Catholic politics.
I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here.