Survey finds priests today to be more conservative and orthodox aleteia.org

In late 1993 and early 1994, the Los Angeles Times conducted a survey of Catholic priests and found that younger priests were more likely to be politically conservative and religiously orthodox compared to middle-aged priests who entered the priesthood in the 1960s.

A new survey of priests, conducted by the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture, posed many of the same questions the Times did. The Austin Institue released the results of the survey this week: as in 1994, younger priests tend to be more conservative, both politically, morally and theologically…

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