{"id":32903,"date":"2012-06-06T15:31:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T15:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/irish_times_ipsos_mrbi_poll-many_roman_catholics_do_not_believe_church_tea\/"},"modified":"2012-06-06T15:31:22","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T15:31:22","slug":"irish_times_ipsos_mrbi_poll-many_roman_catholics_do_not_believe_church_tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32903","title":{"rendered":"Irish Times\/Ipsos MRBI poll&#8211;Many Roman Catholics &#39;do not believe&#39; church teachings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of Catholics in Ireland do not attend Mass regularly and significant numbers do not believe in key tenets of the church\u2019s teaching, according to an Irish Times\/Ipsos MRBI poll.<\/p>\n<p>The poll results, which come as Ireland hosts the 50th Eucharistic Congress of the Catholic Church this week, show belief in the church is strongest in rural areas but falls off significantly in urban areas.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fallout from clerical sex abuse scandals, a significant proportion of the country \u201d\u201c including non-Catholics \u201d\u201c believe the church has had a broadly positive influence on Ireland.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/frontpage\/2012\/0605\/1224317296492.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of Catholics in Ireland do not attend Mass regularly and significant numbers do not believe in key tenets of the church\u2019s teaching, according to an Irish Times\/Ipsos MRBI poll. The poll results, which come as Ireland hosts the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32903\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,199,325,154,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-ireland","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}