{"id":88179,"date":"2026-11-08T08:12:28","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T13:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=88179"},"modified":"2026-11-08T08:12:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T13:12:58","slug":"88179-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/88179-2\/","title":{"rendered":"California&#8217;s Fifth Consecutive Catholic Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As he campaigned for California govern<span style=\"color: #000000;\">or, <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/california-governor-election-becerra-hilton-newsom-aae9829ede7e3f0c5e4512d5732d4df3\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Xavier Becerra<\/a><\/span> reflected on the way his Catholic upbringing informs his politics.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He then explained his rationale, confounding to some [SD note: for certain], for supporting abortion rights. Becerra exemplifies how Catholicism\u2019s deep roots often go hand in hand with <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/california-donald-trump-gavin-newsom-special-session-32511d5887409d68d692e094ed50a272\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">California\u2019s progressive reputation.<\/a><\/span> That complexity is a snapshot of a larger reality \u2014 that American Catholics are in many ways a politically mixed bag.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThere is no Catholic vote,\u201d<\/span> said David Gibson, the director of Fordham University\u2019s Center on Religion and Culture. White evangelicals for Republicans or Black Protestants for Democrats are more politically reliable religious groups, he said.\u00a0With Becerra\u2019s win this week, California has elected five consecutive Catholic governors \u2014 a remarkable streak indicative of Catholicism\u2019s enduring influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: As he campaigned for California governor, Xavier Becerra reflected on the way his Catholic upbringing informs his politics.\u00a0He.<\/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":["post-88179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88179","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=88179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88181,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88179\/revisions\/88181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}