Annual Report
Ordination Class of 2009 Report
Ordination Class of 2009 CARA Report by Mary L. Gautier, Ph.D., Mary E. Bendyna, RSM, Ph.D., and Melissa A. Cidade, M.A., Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate Georgetown University Washington, DC, April 2009
This report presents findings from a national survey of ordinands to the priesthood in 2009. To obtain the names and contact information for these ordinands, the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) contacted all theologates and houses of formation in fall 2008 as part of the annual data collection for its Catholic ministry formation database and requested each site to provide names and contact information for every seminarian who was scheduled to be ordained to the priesthood in 2009. CARA then contacted the ordinands by email, phone, or fax to explain the project and ask them to complete a brief online survey. At the same time, CARA also e-mailed or faxed a similar request to the seminary rector or president at all theologates in its Catholic ministry formation database as well as all major superiors of clerical and mixed religious institutes, asking them to contact the ordinands for CARA and invite them to participate in the online survey.