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(Note: This is part of a series of posts that highlight some of the best news and commentary\u00a0on the role of faith in the 2016 election. See my previous\u00a0posts<\/a> from earlier in the summer.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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I\u2019m not sure who started talking about it first, but in August, everyone<\/em> was talking about Trump\u2019s Catholic problem. The pieces below reflect the main facts, arguments, and explanations. But this list is certainly not exhaustive.<\/p>\n

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Professor Michael J. New had a piece<\/a> at National Review Online shortly after the Pew survey came out. New credits Pew with asking survey respondents not only about their religious affiliation, but also about frequency of worship attendance. This is very important, because we often see significant differences in vote choice among coreligionists based on how devout they are. (I guess we could have a debate about the extent to which church attendance is a good proxy for religious devotion, but I am inclined to think it is. In any event, self-reported church attendance is an efficient way for pollsters to capture a meaningful measure of religious devotion.) New\u2019s piece points to the fact that the \u201cCatholic\u201d label is pretty meaningless unless it can be broken down. Everyone breaks it down by race, income, educational attainment, etc. But frequency of attendance matters. And it might especially matter this election.<\/li>\n
In a commentary for Religion News Service<\/a>, John Gehring points to Trump\u2019s dramatically different approach to migration than what the Catholic Church teaches. (Though this could be said of almost all the GOP presidential aspirants.) I especially commend the latter third of Gehring\u2019s piece, which succinctly lays out reasons why Catholicism\u2019s adherents in particular might be turned off by Trump:
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Trump\u2019s campaign of personality surely attracts some voters who are wowed by the spectacle and see him as a fearless truth teller in an age of political correctness. But his brash oratorical style and often-simplistic arguments don\u2019t sit well with experiences Catholics have with the quiet beauty of Catholic liturgy, or a Catholic intellectual tradition that for centuries has underscored the synthesis of faith and reason.<\/p>\n
Catholic social teaching integrates the study of philosophy, history, science and theology. It\u2019s a thinking religion. For Trump, his my-way-or-the highway pronouncements often seem to view facts and argument as distractions. For Catholics, our moral and intellectual tradition asks us to consider the complexity of \u201cboth-and\u201d conclusions rather than the comfort of\u00a0 \u201ceither-or\u201d false choices. Catholicism is intellectually rigorous and built\u00a0on centuries of tradition that still leave room for nuanced debate, a hallmark of education at Catholic\u00a0colleges and universities across the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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At The Washington Post<\/em>\u2018s blog for political junkies (\u201cThe Fix\u201d), Aaron Blake analyzed new data<\/a> from the Public Religion Research Institute showing that Trump is absolutely tanking with white Catholics compared to Romney. Everyone who has written about Trump\u2019s Catholic problem since this piece was published has cited it. Read it.<\/li>\n
Ed Kilgore, who you should always read, has a concise piece<\/a> at New York Magazine<\/em> that asks an important follow-up question: How bad is Trump\u2019s Catholic problem? Kilgore notes that a basic error in the analysis probably led to the screaming Washington Post<\/em> headline. (Blake compared the 2016 national sample surveys to 2012 exit polls, which are less accurate and typically do not have any measures of religiosity other than self-reported affiliation.)<\/li>\n
In his National Catholic Reporter<\/em> column<\/a>, Father Thomas Reese<\/a> offers a thoughtful response to the recent spate of media attention to Catholic voters. I commend the entire analysis, even if I would push back a bit on the idea that the media have ignored Catholic voters this cycle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
A lot of other people have written about this. Let me know what women and ethnic minority journalist are writing about this issue. I want to lift up other voices.<\/p>\n
(Note: This is part of a series of posts that highlight some of the best news and commentary\u00a0on the role of faith in the 2016 election. See my previous\u00a0posts<\/a> from earlier in the summer.)<\/em><\/p>\n
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