We’re all Cafeteria Catholics

Jesuitical

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🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Ryan Burge set out to learn how many Catholics agree with church teachings on three key pro-life issues: abortion, euthanasia and the death penalty. The answer? Fewer than 1 percent. This week on “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley are joined by Ryan, an associate professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University and the author of the “Graphs about Religion” Substack, to discuss his findings on the beliefs of American Catholics today. They discuss: Trends in Catholic opinion on pro-life issues. How faith-based beliefs and secular politics interact in our polarized society. The role of data in understanding religious trends and effectively communicating church teaching. In Signs of the Times, Zac and Ashley discuss the eucharistic pilgrimages taking place ahead of July’s National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis. They also cover the controversial commencement speech given by Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker at Benedictine College. Links from the show: Cafeteria Catholicism? Planning to join up with the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage? Here’s what you need to know. Harrison Butker’s commencement speech and the danger of a Catholic ‘dead traditionalism’ Young U.S. Catholics want more orthodoxy. That doesn’t mean they reject Vatican II. Podcast: When Catholic doctrine can change—and when it can’t What’s on tap? Carajillos (2 parts cold brew, 2 parts Licor 43) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.0	New Comaldley Hermitage, a place to live through solitude, community, and mission. Hello and welcome to Jesuitical, a podcast from American media for Saints and
0:39.7	sinners. You can join us each week for honest conversations about the Catholic Church in our world today,
0:45.3	often over drinks. I'm Ashley McKinless and I'm joined by Zach Davis.
0:48.8	Great to be with you Ashley. I'm kind of surprised you're here. I thought now that your wife has a master's degree, you're just going to go home and be a stay-at-home husband.
0:57.4	I'm looking forward to that. You know, I'm hoping that she takes this new degree from Columbia and makes a ton of money and I can just chill at home and you know
1:06.3	Podcast and write all the time but not yet not yet I'm still here and we have a great show today. We're talking with Ryan Birch. He is like the
1:16.0	guy to go to if you want to know about statistics and trends in the Catholic
1:20.7	Church and religion in general. So he's an associate professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University and a statistician and the author of the nuns 20 myths about religion and politics in America.
1:34.0	Yeah and we're talking to Ryan about a piece he wrote on his
1:38.0	sub-stack recently. The basic thesis was maybe we're all cafeteria Catholics.
1:42.0	He basically found that among some of the major life issues,
1:46.8	so abortion, capital punishment, euthanasia, the amount of Catholics that actually believe what the church teaches and all of them it's like
1:55.1	less than 1% it's miniscule miniscule so we talked to Ryan we asked him to break
2:00.1	open that data and get into a lot of interesting stuff about what's going on with
2:03.9	religion in the United States today. Yeah and that article is on his sub-stack
2:08.1	which is aptly called graphs about religion and Ryan gave us a great drink recommendation, something I have not had before.
2:15.8	It's called a karaheo. So this is basically a Spanish take on an Irish coffee, so a Spanish coffee,
2:21.3	maybe, yes.
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