[jtal]

shameful

I guarantee my TLM parish was not split 50/50.

[Da Coyote]

I do not consider any “Catholic” who lowered themselves to vote for the Obamadork to be a Catholic.

To those who did: Just leave and become an socialist/athiest.

You’re 99% there anyway, why disgrace the church by entering it?

(We got enough problems getting rid of liberal/gay priests.)

[crosslink]

Save for later read.

[bmwcyle]

SATAN has split your church.

[upchuck]

I am not Catholic. But if you are, there’s no way you could have voted for nobama. Just to start with, millions and millions of dead babies. If you voted for nobama, you’re a CINO and should pray for forgiveness and schedule a couple of hours with your priest for confession. It will take that long.

[Venturer]

Catholics are not split 50/50

Those who vote for abortion and the attacks on the Catholic Church are not Catholics. They should stay home on Sunday.

They are also idiots to vote for another 4 years of this Muslim POS.

[chuckles]

We should have been having this conversation 50 years ago and maybe we wouldn't need to have it now. If the pro aborts were publically kicked out of the church, maybe we would have had to suffer through 50 years of Kennedy's, Biden's Pelosi's and Kerry's. If a Catholic knew they were out if anyone found out they supported murderer's, maybe some would think before voting.

As it is now, the whole church is faced with closing hospitals and other charities due to ObamaCare. If the church buckles on this, they will buckle on anything. It means the Constitution has been scrapped and the Church had been breached.

[alphadoggie]

There’s no way my parish was split 50/50. I’m sure we have a few idiots, but for me, the telling phrase in the article was, “Catholics and Protestants who go to church every week chose Romney over Obama with a difference of 20%.”

There’s a lot of people out there calling themselves Catholics in these polls who are no more Catholic than I am an anteater.

[Never on my watch]

“For Wales? Why, Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world ... but for Wales!”

[Zionist Conspirator]

The “defeat” was made all the more bitter for the Church, by the success, in many States, of the referendum on issues such as same-sex marriage, the death penalty and the use of marijuana.

::Facepalm::

[count-your-change]

Personal opinions on who is or is not a Catholic are two a penny. The hierarchy cannot decide if supporting a pro-abortion politician is a sin or not and if it is what to do about it.

So the 50-50 split is simply a reflection of the surrounding society and would indicate that all the official pronouncements against abortion, birth control, etc. has made little or no lasting impression upon Catholics going to the polls.

[Ransomed]

Does anyone know if the national exit polling for Catholics is made up all the states or what? I mean there should be a state by state breakdown somewhere if that is the case, and I can’t find it. I have found one article that says Ohio Catholics went for Romney by + 9 points, but everything else just seems to be a national number, which is pretty useless.

Freegards

[what's up]

Many of the US Bishops are for social justice.

If it weren't for the abortion provision they may have backed Obamacare 100%.

This is the main problem. Socialism.

[Salvation]

From Catholic Vote:

If you've read any post-election news reports, you might be thinking that we lost the Catholic vote big time.

But that's not true.

The media are already trumpeting the news that the “Catholic vote” went for Barack Obama 50-48. But like every headline, there's more to the story.

The Catholic vote cannot be understood correctly without defining what we mean by “Catholic.” And since 2000, intelligent political observers agree that the best way to measure the Catholic vote is to break up the generic “Catholic vote” into those that regularly attend Mass (active Catholics) and those that do not regularly attend Mass (inactive Catholics).

So what happened in 2012? Here are the facts:  

Active Catholics accounted for 11% of the electorate in 2012 and voted 57-42 for Mitt Romney over President Obama. This represents a 14-point swing from 2008.

This means that hundreds of thousands of Catholics changed their vote from 4 years ago -- voting this this time for the candidate representing life, family, and freedom.

That said, the results were clear, and we fell short of our goal, in part because of the impact of the Hispanic Catholic vote (75-21 for Obama), single women voters and young people. We can’t solve every electoral problem. Our job is to educate, activate and mobilize the Catholic vote. And 42% of Mass attending Catholics voting for a President who stands against virtually everything we believe is simply unacceptable.

Inactive Catholics represented 13% of the electorate and voted 56-42 for President Obama. Regrettably, the electoral difficulties with these Catholic voters will inevitably persist. They remain our brothers and sisters in the Faith, and so we will never give up in inviting them to take seriously the call of our Church. Perhaps the best way to help these voters is to urge them to go to Mass more frequently and let the Holy Spirit take it from there!

We have every right to be disappointed, but we shouldn’t ignore the progress we made. More and more active Catholics are waking up and voting for faith, family and freedom. We’re making steady progress, but much more must be done.

And regardless of the results, there is never any shame in fighting for what is right, win or lose.