[NYer]

We’ve met them all, haven’t we ;-)

[DM1]

well i am a Catholic but a terrible one i guess
i go to church like twice a year and feel bad about it but with my commute, was working three jobs and a young family i never remember what day it is never mind anything else.
however i am a solid Conservative Repubican
so there ;)

[ConservativeMind]

—“Sunday-morning American Catholics. This voter is a regular in the pew and may even play some leadership role in the parish. This is the true Catholic swing vote.”

So, the first two groups are basically Democrats and the third group of the four has their heads up their butts, walking the right way one day and the wrong day the next, and this guy thinks these are the idiots to “target” with a conservative message from a conservative politician?

It looks like three out of four main groups of Catholics are lost causes.

[Alex Murphy]

—“Ex-Catholics. Solid for the Democrats.”

xx% McCain, 68% Obama - Don't attend church⁴ **

—“Cultural Catholics who may go to church a few times a year. This may be an undecided voter, but this vote leans to Democrats.”

37% McCain, 61% Obama - Non-weekly-mass-attending Catholics^6,12 > 45% McCain, 54% Obama - Catholics^{1,4,6,8,9,10,11,12}

—“Sunday-morning American Catholics. This voter is a regular in the pew and may even play some leadership role in the parish. This is the true Catholic swing vote.”

55% McCain, 43% Obama - Weekly mass-attending Catholics ^6,9

—“The ‘sweats the details’ Roman Catholic who goes to confession, is active in the full sacramental life of the parish and almost always backs the Vatican on doctrinal matters. This group is a small slice of the American Catholic pie.”

Exit poll numbers from the 2008 Presidential Election demographics, footnoted and annotated on my profile page.

[Buckeye McFrog]

reminds me of the old Borscht Belt comics’ line about non-observant Jews. They like the culture and the identity of being Jewish....but they just don’t want to be bothered having God hanging around....

[chase19]

The Jewish vote goes Democrat, the Protestant to the Republican. Catholics are the flip-floppers picking Republicans five times and Democrats four since 1972

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[massmike]

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[Cicero]

Confession at least once a year is very important. I was on a tough schedule for a while, commuting from Vermont to NYC, but I managed to get to confession while I was staying over in NYC. If you work in a city you may be able to do it during lunch hour.

Also, I believe that the rule laid down in the middle ages still applies: that everyone must confess at least once a year as an “Easter Duty,” which I believe means some time between Ash Wednesday and Pentecost—the long Lenten and Easter season, before the return to “orginary time.”

Frankly, the bishops and priests have not put enough emphasis on this, but it still applies. And it should be possible to arrange a time with a priest if the usual, brief weekly time set aside for confession is impossible to get to.

[Salvation]

I am currently reading a book by Matthew Kelly. It’s excellent.

He talks about the three sicknesses “isms” of the secular society.

Individualism

Hedonism

Minimalism

Cery interesting.

BTW, the name of the book which I would recommend for all adult Catholics is “Rediscovering Catholicim.”