October 24, 2018
John Vitek, President and CEO of St. Mary’s Press, addressed Catholic school superintendents from across the country Oct. 23 at the Catholic Leadership Summit in Jacksonville, FL. Vitek discussed the research behind Going, Going, Gone: The Dynamics of Disaffiliation in Young […]
October 5, 2018
(RNS) — The future of the Catholic Church is with the young, which is why Pope Francis has called bishops from all over the world to meet in Rome Oct. 3–28 for a synod on young people. If the church […]
September 26, 2018
Disaffiliated young Catholics are not a problem to be solved, but a grace and gift to the church. That key understanding was shared with church leaders in the Diocese of Joliet recently by the coauthor of a national study on […]
August 15, 2018
At Major Superiors of Men gathering, attendees listen to young voices, digest data on estranged exodus. The questions around young people’s engagement with the Catholic faith loom for all corners of the church, including for religious orders dependent on new […]
August 7, 2018
What if our catechetical models allowed for, embraced, and respected the questioning, doubt, wonderment and curiosity that is a natural dimension of being human? Read more here: Better understanding, not apologetics, will best serve ‘nones’ on National Catholic Reporter online (ncronline.org).
August 6, 2018
In case you missed it, St. Louis Review published an article citing Going, Going, Gone: The Dynamics of Disaffiliation in Young Catholics. The article, “Disaffiliated youth present challenge, opportunity” (Aug 2, 2018), can be found here: https://www.archstl.org/disaffiliated-youth-present-challenge-opportunity-2760
March 26, 2018
March 23, 2018 By Emilie Ng CHURCH leaders in Australia are ahead of those in the United States when it comes to finding new ways of evangelizing millennials, said the coauthor of a recent American study into disaffiliated Catholics. John […]
March 21, 2018
In case you missed it, Crux Catholic news site was among media reporting on the release of the report, Going, Going, Gone: The Dynamics of Disaffiliation in Young Catholics. The article, “New study seeks to understand why young people leave the […]
March 13, 2018
Dr. Bob McCarty, coauthor of Going, Going, Gone: The Dynamics of Disaffiliation in Young Catholics, was recently featured in a podcast on the website Ministry Monday (March 4, 2018). Title of the podcast is “From ‘Where?’ to ‘Why?’: Reframing the […]
January 26, 2018
A two-year national study explores why young adults are leaving the Catholic Church. Saint Mary’s Press released results of the study, Going, Going, Gone: The Dynamics of Disaffiliation in Young Catholics, at a national symposium near Baltimore Jan. 16–18, 2018. The […]
January 12, 2018
BALTIMORE (January 17, 2018) – Saint Mary’s Press Catholic Research Group and The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University (CARA) have unveiled the results of an unprecedented two-year national study on why young people are leaving […]
January 5, 2018
John Vitek is president and CEO of Saint Mary’s Press and coauthor of the study Going, Going, Gone: The Dynamics of Disaffiliation in Youth Catholics. The study, conducted by Saint Mary’s Press in collaboration with the Center for Applied Research […]
December 4, 2017
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