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Younger priests remain more conservative than older priests in U.S., survey says

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Younger U.S. priests are far more conservative than older priests, reaffirming a generational divide in political views, according to a 2025 survey.

The strong generational divide in political views among Catholic priests in the United States was reaffirmed in a 2025 survey that shows younger priests are far more conservative than older priests.

The National Study of Catholic Priests, published on Oct. 14, was commissioned by The Catholic Project at The Catholic University of America and conducted by Gallup. Researchers surveyed the same priests who were surveyed in The Catholic Project’s 2022 survey to examine the U.S. priesthood.

According to the report, the 2025 survey “closely mirrors” the findings in 2022 and shows “a clear generational shift away from liberal self-identification.”

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There are signs of hope here and there. :)

If our culture can avoid being destroyed by the Islamo-Communist Left, then I think it might---just might---recover from the current wave of insanity that we have been immersed in since the 1960s.

Future generations may look back at this time period and view it as an aberration, a sidetrack where Western nations reveled in the benefits which the primarily Christian/European civilization produced, all the while rejecting the moral and social foundations which gave rise to those same benefits.

This is, of course, predicated on the assumption that there will not be a nuclear war, a radical jihadist takeover, an economic collapse, a natural disaster of stultifying magnitude (think of Yellowstone blowing up; the San Andreas fault cracking loose from the continental shelf; an asteroid the size of Manhattan impacting the Earth; advent of a new ice age, etc.), or numerous other horrifying scenarios.

Ancient Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times." ;)
 
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