Catholic Bishops and Pope have higher Approval ratings than Obama

The Bishops are interested in gettng involved with Immigration Reform in the same way they were involved with Healthcare Reform. The media attacks don't help their credibillity when they attempt to promote agendas which aren't clearly aligned with Catholic social teaching.

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Catholics' approval ratings of Pope Benedict XVI's job performance while in office had dropped 15 points over the past two years, according to a new poll conducted by Zogby Interactive and commissioned by the National Catholic Reporter weekly newspaper.

The numbers slid from 71 percent in April 2008, as the pope made his first pastoral visit to the United States as pontiff, to 56 percent in April 2010, as Pope Benedict and the Vatican came under increased media scrutiny over past handling of clerical sexual abuse cases.

"Fifteen points is dramatic," said John Zogby, who runs the polling firm that bears his name, at a May 6 luncheon in Washington during which the poll results were issued.

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