Poll shows confidence in church at record low after report on sexual abuse in Pennsylvania. The proportion of US Catholics who regard priests as honest and ethical has plummeted to a record low of fewer than one in three, according to a survey.
The fall of 18 percentage points between 2017 and 2018 is attributed to the last year’s scandals over clerical sexual abuse.
Fewer than half of the Catholics surveyed by Gallup said they had confidence in organised religion, a drop of eight percentage points over the period.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/11/a-third-of-us-catholics-think-priests-are-not-honest-or-ethical
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/11/a-third-of-us-catholics-think-priests-are-not-honest-or-ethical
