Editorial: Catholic bishops should leave politics to politicians and tread carefully on communion question

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : In that speech, the pope urged American politicians to protect the unborn, yes, but also to end the death penalty, to open America to refugees and immigrants, and work to end wars across the world and to give workers more and better rights.
35% : Biden, who attends Mass often and has said he personally opposes abortion, has nevertheless throughout his political career supported the legal right for women to decide for themselves to have one.
34% : A 2019 survey by the Pew Research Center found that 56 percent of U.S. Catholics believe abortion should be legal in all or almost all cases, while only 42 percent think it should be illegal in all or most cases.

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