A survey published in the March issue of Catholic World Report demonstrates that Catholics who enter college as relatively pro-life are relatively pro-abortion by the time they graduate. The study is more evidence that the large number of nominally Catholic colleges are failing to transmit Catholic teachings, especially moral teachings.
As freshmen, 38% of Catholic students at Catholic colleges, and under 49% of Catholic students at nonsectarian colleges, said abortion should be legal, while as seniors, 52% of those at Catholic colleges and 66% at nonsectarian colleges said abortion should be legal.
“We would expect Catholic colleges to have a much stronger effect in bringing students closer to Catholic teachings, or at least not having them fall away,” said Patrick J. Reilly, the report's author and president of the Cardinal Newman Society, a group dedicated to reinforcing the religious identity of Catholic colleges.
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