UNITED STATES
The Raw Story
By Travis Gettys
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
It seems that American Catholics love the seemingly liberal Pope Francis and the direction he’s taking their church.
A pair of recent polls found the new pontiff’s approval rating among his U.S. followers to be about as close to full approval as candy, ice cream and puppies.
A CNN/ORC International poll released Tuesday found that 88 percent of American Catholics approve of the pope nine months into his term.
That’s not far off the survey’s 3 percent margin of error from a Washington Post-ABC poll released earlier this month, which found a 92 percent approval rating among American Catholics.
Pope Francis, who has urged Catholics to shift their focus from culture war issues such as same-sex marriage and abortion to care for the poor and vulnerable, was the most talked about person on the Internet this year, and he was named person of the year by both Time magazine and The Advocate.
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