Here's a new poll on behalf of the Association of Catholic Priests.
Some findings -
87% of Irish Catholics believe priests should be allowed to marry.
77% support allowing female priests.
An impressive (
) 75% of Irish Catholics believe that the Church's teachings on sexuality have no relevance to them or their families. As you might expect, there's a signifcant generational gap on this.
61% of Irish Catholics disagree with the Church's stance on homosexuality, with 46% disagreeing strongly compared to just 9% agreeing strongly. 21% don't know or care. Again, there's a predictably large generational gap on this, too.
87% of Irish Catholics believe that divorced and/or seperated people should be allowed to receive communion. 5% disagree.
Very interesting results, if not that surprising considering how a-la-carte the average Irish Catholic is. I do wish they'd polled attitudes on divorce, since it'd be interesting to see how far the country's come since 1995. The question regarding divorced people receiving communion suggests we'd see an overwhelming majority supporting legal divorce, though.
I wonder how similar the results of a poll of
American Catholics would be.
Full results
here.
