On the contrary, even conservative Catholics smile at the behavior.

"He may be more challenging to politically conservative Catholics than to liberals."

The conservative Catholics were his earliest and most loyal supporters.

Is that a compromise, as some conservative Catholics in his own parish and elsewhere have told him?

Conservative Catholics inside and outside the diocese have made him the target of a highly critical campaign.

But many conservative Catholics remain skeptical of the bishops' chosen approach.

Both were composed by a majority of conservative Catholics.

The conservative Catholics in the south and east supported the Spanish.

Some conservative Catholics in the poll, for instance, identified themselves as supporters of the religious right, even though they are not evangelical.

There were some dissident voices among conservative Catholics who challenged the church's defense of immigration as a basic human right.