. >>> now more on religion and politics with kevin eckstrom, editor in chief of religion news service. >> kevin, we've seen since the very beginning of this primary season that mitt romney has consistently done best among the catholic voters in contrast to rick santorum who is catholic and this really helped him out of course last week in ohio where about a third of the republican voters were catholics and he got the majority of them and that helped him win. >> why do you think that catholics are really gravitating toward romney as opposed to santorum? >> well, i think it's because rick santorum is sort of a very particular kind of catholic that is a bit actually outside the mainstream of the american catholic church. you know, the surveys indicate that the american catholic church, or the american catholics, don't buy the line that the contraception mandate, for example, is an attack on religious freedom, which is what rick santorum and the bishops have been saying. they don't buy that. americans catholics by and large use contraception. rick santorum thinks it's a moral evil, and so