{"id":119,"date":"2010-05-05T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/05\/pope-watch-us-catholics-weigh-in-on-vaticans-handling-of-clergy-sex-abuse.html"},"modified":"2010-05-05T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T14:00:00","slug":"pope-watch-us-catholics-weigh-in-on-vaticans-handling-of-clergy-sex-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/05\/pope-watch-us-catholics-weigh-in-on-vaticans-handling-of-clergy-sex-abuse.html","title":{"rendered":"Pope Watch: U.S. Catholics Weigh In On Vatican&#8217;s Handling of Clergy Sex Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/05\/us\/05poll.html?partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">CBS News\/New York Times <\/a>poll reports&nbsp;that U.S. Catholics think the Vatican has done a &#8220;poor job&#8221; handling the clergy sex abuse scandal, although Pope Benedict&#8217;s approval rating is up to 43 percent, compared to 27 percent in March.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also found that 31 percent of Catholics said celibacy is a major factor leading to sexual abuse, only slightly more than the 30 percent who believe the same could be said for homosexuality. Only 17 percent said they believe the all-male priesthood is a major factor in the abuse problem.<\/p>\n<p>For more detailed analysis, check out David Gibson&#8217;s column over at Politics Daily:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2010\/05\/04\/priest-sex-abuse-survey-catholics-see-links-to-celibacy-homose\/\">Priest Sex Abuse Survey: Catholics See Links to Celibacy, Homosexuality<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2010\/05\/04\/vaticans-handling-of-clergy-sex-abuse-gets-failing-grade-in-sur\/\">Vatican&#8217;s Handling of Clergy Sex Abuse Gets Failing Grade in Survey<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the same topic, a <a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/blogs\/ncr-today\/zogby-poll-us-catholics-pope-benedict-should-not-resign\">Zogby poll slated to be released tomorrow<\/a> reports that 16 percent of U.S. Catholics think Benedict should resign, compared to&nbsp;64 percent who think he should remain&nbsp;pontiff. (The rest are in the don&#8217;t know\/not sure category.)<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new&nbsp;CBS News\/New York Times poll reports&nbsp;that U.S. Catholics think the Vatican has done a &#8220;poor job&#8221; handling the clergy sex abuse scandal, although Pope Benedict&#8217;s approval rating is up to 43 percent, compared to 27 percent in March. The survey also found that 31 percent of Catholics said celibacy is a major factor leading&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pope Watch: U.S. Catholics Weigh In On Vatican&#039;s Handling of Clergy Sex Abuse - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/05\/pope-watch-us-catholics-weigh-in-on-vaticans-handling-of-clergy-sex-abuse.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pope Watch: U.S. Catholics Weigh In On Vatican&#039;s Handling of Clergy Sex Abuse - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A new&nbsp;CBS News\/New York Times poll reports&nbsp;that U.S. Catholics think the Vatican has done a &#8220;poor job&#8221; handling the clergy sex abuse scandal, although Pope Benedict&#8217;s approval rating is up to 43 percent, compared to 27 percent in March. 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