A record percentage of Catholics support abortion, same-sex marriage and premarital sex, according to the latest British Social Attitudes survey.
The annual poll by NatCen Social Research found over three fifths of Catholics think a woman should be able to have an abortion if she simply does not want to have the baby. Meanwhile, 62 per cent of Catholics now believe same-sex relationships are “not wrong at all”, while more than three quarters see nothing wrong with pre-marital sex.
A higher percentage of Catholics than Anglicans now approve of homosexual relationships and sex before marriage, according to the survey.
