Poll: Faith in clergy’s honesty tanks among US Catholics

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Gallup poll has found that fewer than a third of U.S. Catholics rate the honesty and ethical standards of clergy as “very high” or “high,” the latest evidence of the hierarchy’s diminished credibility as a result of the clergy sex abuse scandal.
The record-low 31 percent honesty rating marked an 18-percentage-point drop from 2017, a precipitous fall after years of steady decline.
Catholics aren’t alone in the crisis, however. The Ga