CatholicVote has launched a new initiative called the Catholic Accountability Project, which will track high-profile Catholic lawmakers, public figures and institutions to hold them accountable for positions that work against the Church's moral teachings.

"Faithless Catholic leaders and institutions make a mockery of church teaching," CatholicVote stated. "They degrade our Church."

There are 131 self-identified Catholics in the U.S. House, CatholicVote found, but only 44% of them have consistent pro-life voting records -- despite the Catholic Church's teaching against abortion.

CatholicVote is "collecting data on Catholic leaders in public life, institutions and elected officials," said Brian Burch, the organization's president. "We will be sharing this data with Catholics across the country as part of a massive media campaign. We will use our growing grassroots network, news and media resources to publish, expose and hold them accountable."

Similarly, the Senate currently has 25 Catholics, only 32% of whom consistently vote pro-life.

"You hear it every day from Catholics in the pews," said Joshua Mercer, CatholicVote's communications director. "Prominent Catholics who work against the Church's moral teachings create confusion and division among Catholics. And on issues from abortion to sexuality to disrespect for parental rights in education, someone needed to set the record straight. And thanks to CatholicVote, from now on powerful Catholics are on notice."

Of the 15 Democratic U.S. Senators who identify as Catholic, only one, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, is pro-life. The other 14 all support abortion rights. Of the 10 Republican U.S. Senators who identify as Catholic, two are pro-abortion: Lisa Murkowski of Arkansas and Susan Collins of Maine.

President Joe Biden, who is considered the second Catholic president, publicly supports legal abortion. Some Catholic bishops have called for Biden to be refused communion at Mass due to his stance on abortion. Ahead of Biden's meeting with Pope Francis in October, Bishop Thomas Tobin of Rhode Island urged the pope to challenge Biden on abortion, saying, "His persistent support of abortion is an embarrassment for the Church and a scandal to the world," the Associated Press reported in November. However, Biden said that Francis did not bring up abortion at their meeting, and, in fact, told him he was a "good Catholic," the AP reports.

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco has made it clear that he believes Biden, as well as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who also calls herself Catholic, should not receive the Eucharist. Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the archbishop of Washington, stated that he would not deny Biden communion.