Annual Report
CARA: Diaconate Post-Ordination Survey 2006-2007
Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, Georgetown University Washington, D.C., Diaconate Post-Ordination Survey 2006-2007
March 2007 Report by Mary L. Gautier, Ph.D. and Tricia C. Bruce, Ph.D.
In Spring 2005, the Secretariat for the Permanent Diaconate of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) commissioned the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University to conduct an annual survey of Offices of the Permanent Diaconate. The present survey is the second year that CARA has conducted this survey. The original questionnaire was designed in collaboration with the Executive Director of the USCCB Secretariat for the Diaconate. The questionnaire used in the 2006-2007 survey is almost identical to that used in the 2005-2006 survey.
In October 2006, CARA contacted the directors of all diaconate formation programs in its Catholic Ministry Formation database to request their cooperation in completing the survey. At the same time, CARA distributed the survey to all dioceses and eparchies that do not have an active diaconate formation program, using a list of contacts provided by the Secretariat for the Diaconate.