About CARA

CARA is a national, non-profit, Georgetown University affiliated research center that conducts social scientific studies about the Catholic Church. Founded in 1964, CARA has three major dimensions to its mission:

to increase the Church’s self-understanding
to serve the applied research needs of Church decision-makers
to advance scholarly research on religion, particularly Catholicism.

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Enjoy a variety of free articles we offer on our Substack that draw from our CARA reports, which is the premier research publication for research on Catholic statistics in the world.

The CARA Report

Since 1995, the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA), at Georgetown University has been publishing The CARA Report, providing our readers with the most important and up-to-date research on American Catholics and the Catholic Church in the United States.

For the first time ever, we are offering the CARA report digitally! By becoming a monthly subscriber ($8 a month), you can access the latest CARA report. As a founding member, ($120 a year), you can access all of our past digital issues.

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CARA is a national, non-profit, Georgetown University affiliated research center that conducts social scientific studies about the Catholic Church.

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CARA is a national, non-profit, Georgetown University affiliated research center that conducts social scientific studies about the Catholic Church.