American Catholics still love Pope Francis as he approaches the fifth anniversary of his election next week -- although some American Catholics describe him as "too liberal" and less than half of U.S. Catholics believe he is adequately handling clerical sexual abuse, the America Magazine website reports today (March 6, 2018).
According to a new Pew Research Center poll released today, 84 percent of U.S. Catholics hold a "favorable" view of Pope Francis, a number nearly unchanged from the early days of his pontificate.
Huge majorities of U.S. Catholics also agree that the pope is humble (91 percent) and compassionate (94 percent).
The new report says there is no evidence of a "Francis effect," at least in terms of Mass attendance or growth in the percentage of the population that identifies as Catholic.
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