{"id":1482,"date":"2005-09-30T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2005\/09\/30\/interesting-surveys-of-catholics-thoughts-and-practices\/"},"modified":"2005-09-30T10:06:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-30T16:06:00","slug":"interesting-surveys-of-catholics-thoughts-and-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2005\/09\/30\/interesting-surveys-of-catholics-thoughts-and-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Surveys of Catholics, Thoughts and Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi All &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Click above to visit this week&#8217;s National Catholic Reporter special insert on American Catholics &#8211; the results of several polls over several years.  There are some interesting results between varying age groups and beliefs\/practices, and may turn your thoughts about stereotyping &#8220;who is what sort of Catholic&#8221; on your head.<\/p>\n<p>For instace, which age group had the highest percentage to self-state they &#8220;could not explain their faith to others&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Those born before Vatican II, at 59%.  The lowest percent is 44%, from Shannon and my age group, and the overall average is 49% (Table 13, toward the bottom of the page) &#8211; 49% is rather high, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p>Make sure to read the whole of the findings, and please, don&#8217;t take any items out of context, including the above statistic &#8211; everything is much more complicated than it seems&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For more, <a href=\"http:\/\/natcath.org\/NCR_Online\/archives2\/2005c\/093005\/093005a.php\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-Orin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Hi All &#8211; Click above to visit this week&#8217;s National Catholic Reporter special insert on American Catholics &#8211; the results of several polls over several years. There are some interesting results between varying age groups and beliefs\/practices, and may turn your thoughts about stereotyping &#8220;who is what sort of Catholic&#8221; on your head. For instace,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2005\/09\/30\/interesting-surveys-of-catholics-thoughts-and-practices\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}