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Matthew Bunson at Catholic News Agency, via National Catholic Register:

Vice President Kamala Harris leads among Catholic voters over former president Donald Trump, according to the findings of a new EWTN News/RealClear Opinion Research survey two months away from the presidential election. The poll, conducted from Aug. 28-30, surveyed 1,000 Catholics and has a margin of error of +/- 3 percentage points.  Catholic voters, like most of the electorate, consider the economy by far the most pressing issue facing the country and oppose transgender surgeries for minors and transgender males competing in women’s sports. They are divided on the question of who should set policy on abortion, U.S. support for Ukraine, and Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.  The findings also reveal a significant gender gap among Catholic voters, while Trump is currently receiving support from 30% of Catholic Latinos. According to the findings, 50% of Catholic voters currently support Harris for president while 43% support Trump and 6% are undecided. Harris is also ahead of Trump among Catholic Latino voters, leading the former president 60% to 30% overall but with 9% still undecided. This is important given the growing size and influence of Latinos in American Catholicism. 

The vice president also leads Trump among Catholic African American voters 82% to 12% and Catholic Asian voters 58% to 35%. Trump carries non-Hispanic white Catholic voters by a margin of 52% to 42%.  Similarly, Harris leads the former president in every age group, with her biggest leads among Catholic voters aged 30-39 and 40-49. Interestingly, her smallest margin is among the 18- to 29-year-olds, Gen-Z Catholic voters (many of whom will be voting for the first time in 2024), where she holds a statistically insignificant lead of 44% to 43%. Among Catholic voters, she has also managed so far to avoid damage from President Joe Biden’s low job approval rating, currently at 49% disapproval with 41% approval, while 10% are neutral.

A Catholic Gender Gap

Especially notable is the gender gap that has emerged among Catholic voters. Female Catholic voters support Harris over Trump 56% to 37%, while male Catholic voters favor Trump 49% to 43%. Similarly, on the generic ballot for control of Congress, 49% of Catholics support the Democrat candidate while 41% support the Republican candidate. Female Catholic voters, meanwhile, favor the Democrat candidate 54% to 35% while male Catholic voters support the generic Republican 48% to 43%. 

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Mass Attendance and Catholic Voters

The poll also found that when it comes to Mass attendance, 12% of American Catholics attend Mass daily or more than once a week, 31% once a week, 16% once or twice a month, 32% a few times a year, and 9% once a year. Harris leads among every category of Mass-attending Catholics save for daily Mass attendees who support Trump 55% to 30%.  Unlike the findings in previous polling of Catholics, in this unusual election at least, regular Mass attendance or adherence to Church teaching may no longer be an indication that the voters will vote for the Republican presidential candidate.

According to the EWTN News/Real Clear Opinion poll conducted between 08.28 and 08.30.2024, Kamala Harris leads all American Catholics 50%-43%. Harris also leads 82%-18% among Black Catholics, 60%-30% among Latine Catholics, and 58%-35% among Asian-American Catholics. Donald Trump leads White Catholics 52%-42%. Female Catholics back Harris 56%-37%, while male Catholics back Trump 49%-43%.

Both EWTN and RealClear Opinion have well-known right-wing biases. The former entity was founded by the late Mother Angelica.

The poll was analyzed on EWTN's EWTN News In Depth on Friday.

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I hope you don’t take this the wrong way because I’m genuinely trying to find out more —- I am Anglican Christian but I’ve always been interested and recenrly been looking more into the Catholic Church so I wondered why Purgatory is a thing and why catholics typically believe this? :)

I don’t mind don’t worry! I’m actually really excited that you asked!

Purgatory for us is a thing definitely. In a general sense, Catholics believe there has to be a temporary place of purification of sin before you enter Heaven. As Catholics, we believe no one can enter Heaven with sin. That’s the most basic concept of why we believe in Purgatory.

This is what the Catechism of the Catholic Church (second edition) says about Purgatory…

“The Final Purification, or Purgatory

1030 All who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven.

1031 The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned. The Church formulated her doctrine of faith on Purgatory especially at the Councils of Florence and Trent. The tradition of the Church, by reference to certain texts of Scripture, speaks of a cleansing fire:

As for certain lesser faults, we must believe that, before the Final Judgement, there is a purifying fire. He who is truth says that whoever utters blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will be pardoned neither in this age nor in the age to come. From this sentence we understand that certain offenses can be forgiven in this age, but certain others in the age to come.

1032 This teaching is also based on the practice of prayer for the dead, already mentioned in Sacred Scripture: “Therefore [Judas Maccabaeus] made atonement for the dead, that they might be delivered from their sin.” From the beginning the Church has honored the memory of the dead and offered prayers in suffrage for them, above all Eucharistic sacrifice, so that, thus purified, they may attain the beatific vision of God. The Church also commends almsgiving, indulgences, and works of penance undertaken on behalf of the dead:

Let us help and commemorate them. If Job’s sons were purified by their father’s sacrifice, why would we doubt that our offerings for the dead bring them some consolation? Let us not hesitate to help those who have died and to offer our prayers for them.”

- Purgatory #1030-1032 page 291. Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition.

My mom just tossed me this book. It’s excellent. I highly recommend it for you!:

“This pocket-sized overview of the doctrines and practices of the Church regarding the Holy Souls in Purgatory equips you to explain and defend one of the greatest works of mercy. Compact and accessible, the booklet draws on Scripture, Tradition, and the teachings and testimonies of the saints, such as St. Stanislaus Papczynski and St. Faustina Kowalska. See how you can help the Holy Souls.

Marian Press”

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If you want to learn more in depth about Purgatory, see these:

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Caritas respond to needs on the ground in Turkey and Syria

With the death toll now reaching over 42,000 in Turkey and around 1,400 in Syria, the Caritas network is assessing the needs on the ground, in order to coordinate efforts to better help those displaced by the strong earthquakes and aftershocks that struck the region this February.

“We need to be very careful about what we do to make sure that we’re assessing the needs that are there, and I think the main thing is that we’re making sure that we’re reaching out to the right people,” Caritas Internationalis Emergency Response Team (ERT) Coordinator John Coughlin said in an interview on EWTN’s news programme ‘In Depth’.

Caritas’ emergency humanitarian response efforts in both Turkey and Syria continues thanks to the combined work of several teams from local diocesan Caritas, as well as Caritas staff and volunteers from around the world including countries such as Italy, Germany, Poland and Lebanon.

In Iskenderun, Caritas is working with the Diocese to provide food packages, water, hygiene supplies and warm clothes and blankets for the affected population in Turkey. Giulia Longo who is working alongside volunteers in Turkey said: “These people are affected and traumatised by what’s going on. But actually the staff is still working with the youth group and volunteers”.

When the first earthquake struck on February 6, the Diocese of Anatolia suffered severe damages to its cathedral and its office building. Caritas in Anatolia distributes hot meals for lunch and dinner in the city and have also helped implement a mobile kitchen in collaboration with a German NGO in the Antakya district which distributes around 2,200 hot meals per day for displaced people.

In Anatolia, volunteers from the Chaldean Church of Tokat are also assisting Caritas with in-kind distributions. In Mersin, a group of Polish psychologists are carrying out psychosocial services with interpreters for displaced persons.

Not long after the disaster struck, a Caritas Youth team from Lebanon travelled to neighbouring Syria to help those displaced due to the destruction of several homes and buildings. “Caritas Lebanon remains here to support anyone in need wherever they are, despite all challenges and limited resources, we are here to provide aid and to ease the pain,” said Head of Caritas Lebanon Youth Department Peter Mahfouz.

Funds received by Caritas will be used now and in the coming months for food, medical supplies, shelter and other essential supplies to meet basic human needs. These funds will also serve to meet long term needs to help families go back to a more stable life.

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