Marital status among Catholics by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among Catholics by marital status
% of Catholics who are…
Interpreting scripture | Married | Living with a partner | Divorced/separated | Widowed | Never married | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 50% | 9% | 14% | 8% | 18% | 1,538 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 55% | 6% | 10% | 7% | 22% | 2,770 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 55% | 4% | 14% | 11% | 16% | 201 |
Not the word of God | 48% | 10% | 11% | 6% | 25% | 2,064 |
Other/don't know | 49% | 12% | 13% | 9% | 17% | 603 |
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