Pope's approval rating 70%, LeMoyne/Zogby poll says

The Post-Standard, Syracuse
Renée K. Gadoua
Wednesday April 09, 2008

A LeMoyne College/Zogby International poll being released today shows that Pope Benedict XVI's approval rating among American Catholics is 70 percent.

But that still doesn't top the popularity of his predecessor, John Paul II.

The Contemporary Catholic Trends poll also found that a quarter of American Catholics say the pope has only a little influence on world affairs.

At 70 percent approval, a significant majority of respondents believe Benedict is doing a good job leading the church, said Matthew Loveland, a sociologist of religion at Le Moyne who works with the Le Moyne/Zogby poll. the rest

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