Thursday, July 11, 2024

America’s New Catholic Priests: Young, Confident and Conservative - The New York Times

Priests ordained since 2010 "are clearly the most conservative cohort of priests we've seen in a long time," said Brad Vermurlen, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, who has studied the rightward shift of the American priesthood. Surveys tracking the opinions of priests have found that, starting in the 1980s, each new wave of priests in the United States is noticeably more conservative than the one before it, Dr. Vermurlen said...

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