Previously Announced Catholicism USA A Portrait of the Catholic Church in the United States Bryan T. Froehle and Mary L. Gautier Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate This essential work combines narrative, story, statistics, trends and analysis to provide an in-depth portrait of U.S. Catholics and their church today.
June ISBN 1-57075-272-9 Tables and Diagrams 224pp. Index. 6 x 9-1/4 Paper $30.00

Catholics everywhere are challenged to reflect on the state of the church and its social context. This book is the only reader-friendly resource that interprets current statistics on Catholic population, institutions and personnel—and what these numbers portend.

Complete with graphs, maps and tables summarizing a wealth of data, this book will stand as the reference on the twentieth-century U.S. Catholic church. Above all, it supplies the facts that bishops, planners, priests, teachers, lay ministers, media, and scholars need to understand the church as it enters the third millennium.

Bryan T. Froehle is executive director of the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. He is editor of the Catholic Ministry Formation Directory. Mary L. Gautier is CARA’s senior research associate and editor of The CARA Report, a quarterly publication on research on the Catholic church in the United States.