There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s.

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I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a...

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The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is...

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Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it.

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Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey...

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Two studies from the year 2000, however, indicate that Catholics give lower ratings to their...

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There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be...

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The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they...

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I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after...

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Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the...

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You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You...

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I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try...

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In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women...

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The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than...

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One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very...