Abstract
AbstractChapter 4 provides a detailed analysis of the shifting terrain of Catholics’ attitudes on social issues across recent decades. This is done in the context of the Catholic Church’s long-standing teachings on social morality. The chapter first reviews the long-term attitudinal data on moral debates, based on analysis of long-running social surveys. This shows how there has been a substantial and wide-ranging liberalization of Catholics’ attitudes on abortion, assisted suicide, sexual relations before marriage, gender roles, and same-sex relations. Based on in-depth analysis of the new ‘Catholics in Britain’ survey, the chapter then shows the liberal stances that many British Catholics hold on these issues and explore some of main sources of attitudinal variation, based on sex, age, education, religious socialisation, and levels of religious commitment.
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