CANADA
Vancouver Sun
By Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun March 12, 2013
A strong majority of North America Roman Catholics want a more “liberal” pope and seek an end to Vatican bans on artificial contraception, married priests and female ordination, according to an Angus Reid Public Opinion poll released Monday.
Vancouver-based pollster Mario Canseco, a practising Catholic like his boss, Angus Reid, said the cross-border poll points to clear ways the cardinal who will be elected pope this week could bring wayward Catholics back to the fold.
Canseco, who attended Catholic educational institutions for 17 years in Mexico and Spain, said he was personally “pleasantly surprised” with the findings – because the yearning for Vatican reform is widespread among both Catholics who attend church once a week and those who show up less frequently.
Sixty per cent of Canadian Catholics who go to mass at least every week want a more “liberal” pontiff. That figure swells to 69 per cent among Canadian Catholics who attend church less often.
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