USCCB report: Are American Catholics as divided as they seem?

Has synodal report accurately captured the state of US Catholicism?

At face value, a new report on the state of American Catholics makes for grim reading, pointing to growing division and unhappiness. According to the report by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Catholics in the US are divided over everything from the liturgy to gay rights. Part of the Pope’s Synod of Synodality, the report warned that Catholics have brought divisions from the political arena into the Church in America, an increasingly diverse community centred increasingly in the south and west.