Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Ministry in Mount Rainier, Md., which serves gay and lesbian Catholics, has been critical of the Vatican’s resistance to homosexuality.

Monsignor Edward J. Arsenault is head of the St. Luke Institute in Silver Spring, Md., which treats psychologically troubled clergy.

Thomas Groome is a professor of theology and religious education at Boston College, where he chairs the department of religious education and pastoral ministry. His primary area of interest is the history, theory and practice of religious education. He wrote Educating for Life: A Spiritual Vision for Every Teacher and Parent and is the primary author of various […]

The Rev. John Baldovin is professor of historical and liturgical theology at Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Mass. His books include Worship, City, Church and Renewal and Bread of Life, Cup of Salvation: Understanding the Mass. He delivered a paper, “Priesthood and Sacramental Ministry: History and Theology,” at a 2005 Boston College conference on the Roman […]

Watch a March 21, 2013, video about the Catholic Church turning to Anglican priests to address the shortage.

A 2009 CBS poll discovered two-thirds of Americans didn’t like how the Catholic Church was handling the sexual abuse scandal.

A 2005 Gallup poll found that while Americans were supportive of equal job rights for homosexuals, they didn’t think people who are gay should be clergy members.

The Los Angeles Times did extensive surveys of U.S. priests in 1994 and in 2002. Read the story with links to other aspects of the poll.

On Feb. 27, 2004, the lay-led Office of Child and Youth Protection of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops released a survey on the cumulative toll of sexual abuse inflicted on children by priests during the past 50 years. The office commissioned experts from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York to […]