Annual Report
Ordination Class of 2007 Report
Ordination Class of 2007 CARA Report by Mary L. Gautier, Ph.D. and Mary E. Bendyna, RSM, Ph.D., Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate Georgetown University Washington, DC
In December 2005, the Secretariat for Vocations and Priestly Formation of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) engaged the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University to conduct an annual survey of ordinands to the priesthood. The survey was initially developed by the Secretariat in 1998 and has been administered online for the past three years. CARA assumed responsibility for the project in 2006, using the online survey developed by the Secretariat. CARA worked with the Secretariat during 2006 to improve the online survey and to incorporate it into the annual data collection process CARA conducts for its annual survey of priestly formation programs. This report presents results of the survey of ordinands of the Class of 2007.