U.S. Laity Would Welcome Changes
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) NEW YORK, March 14. Seven out of 10 Roman Catholic Americans want the church to change its traditional position on birth control, “Newsweek” said today.
A nation-wide poll for the magazine on the attitudes of United States Catholics to-
ward their church found among other things that: One Catholic in three now uses a birth control pill or mechanical contraceptive. Fifty-nine per cent support the church's stand against abortion, but the same number would approve abortion for a mother of young children whose life was endangered by another pregnancy. Another 46 per cent would approve abortion for a girl who had been raped. Half .the laity opposes the Church’s stringent laws against divorce, with 65 per cent preferring that the Pope provide annulments allowing remarriage for the innocent party in a divorce. Forty eight per cent feel priests ought to marry if they wish.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31321, 17 March 1967, Page 2
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