Share of US Catholics backing legal abortion rises as adherents remain at odds with church
USA Today: Jonathan Tan, the Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies, shared insight into new findings showing that the U.S. Catholic Church—once predominantly Irish, Italian and German and shaped by 19th- and early 20th-century immigration—has become increasingly diverse and pluralistic. “The Pew statistics confirm what is obvious on the ground,” he said.