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...Roman Catholics still believe that parochial schools have a place in modern life? Despite some fall-off in attendance at the schools, the answer was a resounding yes from 89% of nearly 1,000 subjects surveyed by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center. But that is one of the few Catholic opinions to remain firm over the past decade. In a report just published in the Critic, Priest-Sociologist Andrew M. Greeley and three colleagues compared the results of the new survey with a roughly parallel poll taken in 1963 and found that many Catholic habits...
RELIGIOUS DEVOTION. Seventy-one percent of the Catholics surveyed in 1963 attended weekly Mass. Now only 50% go. Why the drop? Few are repelled by changes in the liturgy, such as the English Mass. The "new church," in fact, is widely approved. Most who stay away from church say that they do so because they are working, too old or tired, or simply lazy. Furthermore, only 53% now think that missing Mass is "certainly" a sin for those who can easily attend. On the other hand, in the new survey, 6% of those questioned had attended a Catholic Pentecostal prayer...
SEXUALITY. A decade ago, 45% of Catholics approved artificial contraception. Now a full 83% approve it. Only 12% of Catholics approved sexual relations between an engaged couple in the 1963 survey; by 1974 the number approving had jumped to 43%. Remarriage after divorce was accepted by 52% a decade ago, but by 73% in the new survey. Approval of an action for others, however, does not mean that Catholics would necessarily act the same way themselves. Fully 70% of the survey respondents, for example, thought that legal abortion should be available for married women who did not want more children...
...Women in the sciences have long complained justifiably of a "skirt differential." That is, they have been paid less than men even when they have held comparable jobs. Now that differential may be changing in the women's favor. In a recent survey, the American Chemical Society found that newly graduated women chemists and chemical engineers are being paid on average 5% more than male graduates. A decade ago, women entering chemistry were earning only 86% as much as their male counterparts. The society says that the turnabout is probably the result of more intensive bidding by employers...
Earlier, the Commerce Department disclosed that its index of leading indicators, which is designed to project future economic trends, fell 1.5% in November and 7.3% since July-the steepest five-month drop in a quarter-century. Boding ill for consumer confidence in the months ahead, a new survey by Pollster Louis Harris reported that 80% of the American people now believe the U.S. is in a recession, and 60% see it continuing through the rest of the year. To combat the worsening economic problem, President Ford at week's end signed legislation appropriating $4.5 billion for unemployment...