The Economist: “Some 56% of these surveyed agreed that the church ought to assist the rights of refugees and migrants, even when that conflicts with nationwide border legal guidelines. Views on migrants diverse broadly throughout nations: Catholics in Europe, the place immigration is a contentious political problem, had been markedly much less sympathetic than these in Africa, Asia and South America. A majority of Catholics surveyed (55%) supported the church being extra welcoming to homosexual and transgender individuals. Kenya was the one nation the place opposition outweighed assist (round a fifth of respondents globally had been ambivalent on the problem). Simply over half (51%) of these surveyed supported girls changing into ordained deacons; and 46% had been in favour of permitting monks to marry. In every case, as a result of a big share of Catholics had been undecided, opponents had been within the minority.”
“Catholics from Argentina, Francis’s birthplace, had been persistently among the many most open to vary. The late pope’s views might have had better affect there. Many Catholics within the comparatively liberal nation—Argentina was the primary in Latin America to legalise same-sex marriage, in 2010—are additionally not significantly religious. No less than two-thirds of Argentinians establish as Catholic, however solely round 20% of the inhabitants attends mass recurrently.”
