Sunday, March 4, 2012

OK to disagree with pope, Catholics say

NEW YORK (UPI) Most American Catholics say they can disagreewith the pope and still be good Catholics, said a Time magazine pollreleased Sunday.

Three-fourths of the Catholics surveyed said it is permissibleto "make up their own minds" on issues such as birth control andabortion, according to the poll in the magazine's Sept. 7 issue.

Time said 93 percent of the Catholics polled agreed, "It ispossible to disagree with the pope and still be a good Catholic."

The research firm Yankelovich Clancy Shulman took the telephonepoll Aug. 17-19 of 860 adults, including425 …

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