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Bishops at odds with parishioners on subject of contraception.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO)
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November 18, 2006
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Byline: Tim Townsend
ST. LOUIS _ It has been so long since most American Catholics have even debated the moral implications of contraception that statisticians no longer regularly ask them what they think of birth control.
Recent poll numbers are scarce, but those that do exist suggest around 90 percent of American Roman Catholics ignore their church's teaching on contraception.
"When it comes to that particular tenet of faith, it's a lost cause in America," said Tom Smith, a senior research scientist with the National Organization for Research at the University of Chicago.
But Catholic church teaching doesn't change based on statistics, even if that teaching ...