Over all how do you feel about Pope Francis?

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47. "Is he having a real affect on Catholic Church practices?"

Globally? Undetermined, leaning yes. A large part of this is that for a large part of Europe and other largely-urbanized predominantly-Catholic societies, the social issues are largely more settled. The church lost and most Catholics pay no mind to the church's position...thus there is not a large Catholic conservative bloc. Catholicism is there foremost an economically-liberal faith before a socially-conservative one in those places.

Domestically? No...American Catholic leadership is committed Republican and conservative on the basis of social issues. The USCCB just elected a new head of organization whose most prominent quality is that he is vocally-opposed to the policy agenda of this Pope both on economic issues and the slight liberalization on social issues. There are some signs in the wind that given a some time, Francis is about to become more actively involved in curbing this bloc of American Catholic conservatism. But for now, it's not really having an impact except the slight unrelated and previous uptick in liberal Catholic laity who predominantly vote economic issues.