You are a dear! Yes, I think I was getting the number 56 million as referring to Americans who consider themselves practicing Catholic back when the dust up was whether or not it was catechetically correct to pray for Sen. Kennedy's recovery during surgery.

Oh these number are so difficult to pin down when dealing with such big issues!

:)

I doubt I could estimate how many Catholics were actually offended - but I'm going to make a wild stab at say probably several hundred.

Can you do the math on that percentage? Several hundred out of 1.1 billion?

I'll just stick with 'not a lot' and my point that the vast majority of practicing Catholics have no opinion on Ms. Quinn's opinions.

I know I have had (and do have?) a love/hate relationship with The Catholic Church myself. Right now I seem to be in a calm, accepting, amenable stage. Must be my approaching half-century mark!