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page, please read this:
Since its founding, CARA has published dozens of
books, reports, directories, and newsletters. The most
current CARA publications are listed here.
CARA
Publications Order Form allows you to view a listing of recent
publications available for purchase and then order your selections
online.
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Subject
Index allows you to retrieve information on past issues of The
CARA Report grouped by subject.
Author Index
offers a listing of authors whose works have been
cited
in past issues of The CARA Report.
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Books
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CARA's Catholic
Ministry Formation Directory is a definitive listing of all
Catholic ministry formation programs. A unique and vital source of
program
and enrollment information for Catholic seminaries, diaconate formation
programs, and lay ecclesial ministry formation programs, the Ministry
Formation Directory has been thoroughly revised and updated,
with up-to-date listings for over 650 programs, and expanded
statistical
analysis of trends in ministry formation enrollment.
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Primary Trends, Challenges, and Outlook: A
Report on Catholic Elementary Schools, 2000-2005
Commissioned and published by the National Catholic Educational
Association (NCEA), this CARA report presents results of trend analyses
and surveys with Catholic parents, Catholic elementary school
principals, pastors of parishes with affiliated elementary schools, and
diocesan schools superintendents. This report presents a
"cautiously optimistic" outlook for the future of Catholic elementary
schools, highlighting the challenges of demographic change. This
report can be ordered through NCEA.
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Maps
Catholic Dioceses in the United States
This 11 by 17 inch color map of all territorial Latin Rite Dioceses
in the United States is identical to the map CARA produces for The
Official Catholic Directory.
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Working Papers.
CARA occasionally produces working papers on topics on themes of more
general interest, drawing from CARA research. To view the
following working papers you must have the free Adobe Reader software
on your computer. To download a free copy of Adobe Reader,
click here:
1. Young Adult
Catholics...Living with Diversity
This examination of Young Adult Catholics and how they compare with
Catholics of other generations was prepared by CARA at Georgetown
University. The data for this study come from a national
telephone survey of a random sample of self-identified Catholics in the
United States.
2. Political
Preferences...Public Square Fall 2000
This report presents major findings from a study of America Catholics
in the Public Square. The study was designed by the CARA in
collaboration with the Commonweal Foundation and the Faith and Reason
Institute and is part of the Faith in the Public Square studies funded
by the Pew Charitable Trusts. This part of the study is based on
a national random sample telephone survey of self-identified adult
Catholics in the United States.
3. Campus
Ministry
The Secretariat for Education of the
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops engaged CARA to examine
the
effects of participation in college campus ministry on several aspects
of
Catholics’ religious commitment. This report does so by analyzing
data from the CARA Catholic Poll 2001, a telephone poll of
self-identified
Catholics in the United States.
4. Ongoing
Formation Among Priests in the U.S.
CARA first released this work as a
report commissioned by NOCERCC, the National Organization for the
Continuing Education of Roman Catholic Clergy. The research was
funded in part by a grant from the Louisville Institute. In
September 2002 NOCERCC permitted
CARA to release the report as a CARA Working Paper in order to provide
for
a wider distribution of the findings.
5. Priests in
the
U.S.: Satisfaction, Workload, and Support
Structures
This CARA Working Paper was prepared
for the national conference on research on priests in the United States
sponsored by the USCCB Committee on Priestly Life and Ministry and held
at the Life Cycle Institute of Catholic University of America on
September
10, 2002. It contains data on CARA studies that have been
sponsored
in part by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and
the
National Organization for the Continuing Education of Roman Catholic
Priests
(NOCERCC).
6. Profile
of the Diaconate in the United
States: A Report of Findings
from CARA’s Deacon Poll
This CARA Working Paper was prepared for the Secretariat for the
Diaconate of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in
January 2004. The report provides information on the
demographics, background characteristics, and current ministry of
deacons in the United States using a random sample telephone poll
permanent deacons conducted by CARA in 2001.
7. Social
Justice Attitudes and Religious Commitment among Participants in the
Jesuit Volunteer Corps
This CARA Working paper examines how and why social justice attitudes
and religious commitment change among participants in the Jesuit
Volunteer Corps (JVC). Data come from two written surveys
completed by 95 first-time Jesuit volunteers before and near the
conclusion of the 1996-1997 year of service. Volunteers’ social
justice attitudes became more liberal, especially on welfare reform, an
issue of intense public debate at the time. Volunteers were
particularly likely to become more liberal on welfare reform if they
got to know poor people in their neighborhood and if the social service
agency where they volunteered encouraged a social justice
perspective. Reported frequency of worship attendance declined
slightly, and some religious attitudes became less traditional.
8. Catholic
Reactions to the News of Sexual Abuse Cases Involving Catholic Clergy
Early
in 2002, the issue of sexual abuse among Roman Catholic priests began
receiving
unprecedented attention in the national news media.
How the nation’s lay Catholics were affected
by revelations of clergy sexual abuse and by revelations about Church
leaders’
handling of the problem has been a matter of intense debate since that
time. This paper provides a review of
evidence from survey research conducted by the Center for Applied
Research in
the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown
University. It primarily summarizes results from ten
national telephone polls of adult self-identified Catholics conducted
since
January 2001. Among topics covered include affiliation, Mass
attendance, giving, and confidence in Church leadership.
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