{"id":83808,"date":"2026-06-19T08:59:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83808"},"modified":"2026-06-19T08:59:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:59:19","slug":"nearly-eighty-percent-of-u-s-catholics-view-pope-favorably","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/nearly-eighty-percent-of-u-s-catholics-view-pope-favorably\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly Eighty Percent Of U.S. Catholics View Pope Favorably"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Pew:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About eight-in-ten U.S. Catholics (78%) have a favorable view of Pope Leo XIV, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. That\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2025\/09\/12\/more-than-8-in-10-u-s-catholics-view-pope-leo-favorably\/\">down slightly from summer 2025<\/a>, when 84% of U.S. Catholics expressed a favorable opinion of the American-born pope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The share of Catholics who have a positive view of Leo today is similar to the share who had a favorable view of his predecessor, Pope Francis, during the last years of Francis\u2019 pontificate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1favorability_640px@2x_6a8295.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-83809\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1favorability_640px@2x_6a8295.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"677\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1favorability_640px@2x_6a8295.webp 1200w, https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1favorability_640px@2x_6a8295-768x433.webp 768w, https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1favorability_640px@2x_6a8295-255x144.webp 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Pew: About eight-in-ten U.S. Catholics (78%) have a favorable view of Pope Leo XIV, according to a new Pew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83810,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83808\/revisions\/83810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}