Are Roman Catholics generally more conservative?

Question

I am asking this question very abstractly and I hope no one will take offence on it.

Am I right to say Roman Catholics and their families are generally more conservative and reserved compared to their peers from the other donomination? Are they generally more reserved in their activities and beliefs?

No offence. This is what I was told.

Answer 1

I do not think so, I have found it to be Baptists as an organized whole are. I was personally told I could not wear pants to Church by this group (even with wind chills below 0), my beliefs were questioned because I am Independent and they found out I was voting for some Democrats, so I was removed as being fit to run children's nursery, etc...

Answer 2

No fundamentalist Christians are,

I just think this is from experience with knowing a lot of Catholics,

but then It may depend on what region you are in the US.

Generally, CAtholics are more liberal in the North East.
But if you are a devout Catholic in the South, the may even be more strict.

I know many devout Catholics and they are not strict at all about drinking alcohol, and their attitude is generally more relaxed, not as judgemental and more open minded and understanding..."live and let live"....

They also don't take the bible literally.

Answer 3

Do you mean 'conservative' in the political sense (as in Tory) or the attitude sense?

Either way, I doubt that this question is answerable given that worldwide there are more than a billion (Roman Catholics) world wide - that is a huge population sample to try and group!

However, speaking from personal experience (from an attitude sense) as with anybody, how conservative or liberal they are depends wholely upon the individual Catholic.

Answer 4

the universal public of yank Christians are Protestants and the universal public of those are Baptists. Methodists, Mormons, and Lutherans even have solid representation. a large sort American Christians (extraordinarily in the South and rural Midwest) are "non-denominational", this potential that they attend an self sustaining Christian church that doesn't best chum itself with any of the main agencies. those church homes tend to be lots extra fundamentalist. Roman Catholics have large community in usa, often for the duration of the northeastern seaboard and coastal factors close to the Gulf of Mexico. definite, they are regarded via the Vatican. The Greek Orthodox church has very small representation in usa, yet there are some. usa additionally has a large populations of Jewish people on the east and west coasts. The Muslim community is immediately growing to be in length and is frequently interspersed for the duration of the country. those represent the main populous non secular strikes in usa, yet via no potential all. usa has each and every little thing from Ammonites to Zoroastrians. EDIT: there's no unified "Protestant" church in usa. All Christian denominations which at the instant are not Catholic are reported as "Protestant".

Answer 5

This is generally true, at least for devout Catholics. The Church teaches that sex is only for procreation and not recreation, that it's a sin to be born(however they came up with that one) and that contraception is a sin. In fact almost everything is a sin if it's enjoyable. The general run of the mill Catholic isn't as inclined to blindly follow the Church's teachings anymore and are a lot more liberal that they were 20 years ago. In fact, most Catholics I know are really going for it now to make up for time lost through repression in earlier years.

Answer 6

We Catholics can be difficult to pin down. If you are talking about political views, I think it is a mixed bag. Catholics commonly are against abortion and handing out condoms in schools, which makes us conservative. On the other hand, we also oppose the death penalty which makes us liberal. Catholics commonly embrace old-fashioned family values, which makes us conservative. Many Catholics are recent immigrants, particularly Hispanics, who tend to be liberal.

Sorry if I am rambling, I do not feel there is an easy answer.

Answer 7

Well, preserving an apostolic tradition for 2,000 years has meant that a more conservative perspective won out. But you've only got to look at Catholic Charismatics, or even further back to figures like Francis of Assisi to see that Catholicism embraces more liberal points of view. Protestants have no real guide to deviate from, hence their erratic, ultra-liberal / ultra-conservative approaches to the faith.

Answer 8

They can get out and do as they please , and just ask for forgiveness during confessions...Have a sense of humor Caths I am just joking ... I think you have some that are ,as with any religion , I know some who live as if the pope was looking right at them all the time , and others who stay drunk,and wild Monday through Friday , and ask for forgiveness on the weekend ,and do it all over again week after week....just as Christians some live just as the religion teaches, while you have some who say they are christian, but live like the devil.... there are good ,and bad examples in all Faiths , it just depends which example((person)) of each religion you are watching

Answer 9

I know a lot of RC's and some of them are very conservative, and some of them are outrageous. It depends on the personality not the religion. I knew a catholic priest in Zim who smoked, drank and gambled with the best of them.

Answer 10

Not really.
Catholics are a religious group comprised of people from all walks of life. The make-up is the same as the society from which they come. Some liberal, some conservative........some middle of the road.