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The National Centre for Pastoral Research carries out research projects that are of immense value to the wider Catholic church. Our projects include:
Core Projects:
- National Catholic Census Project (1996, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016 and 2021)
- Australian Catholic Mapping Online (2011 —)
- National Count of Attendance (2001, 2006, 2011, 2016 and 2021)
- National Church Life Survey (2001, 2006, 2011 and 2016)
- Synod on Synodality (2020 –)
- Plenary Council (2020 – 2022)
Topical Projects:
- A Profile of Catholic Clergy in Australia (2024)
- Evaluating the Implementation of “Woman and Man: The Bishops Respond” (Social Justice Sunday Statement 2000) (2024 – 2025)
- Absent From the Table: Australian Catholics who do not regularly attend Sunday Mass (2024 – 2025)
- Response to Governance Review Project (2023)
- ACBC-CRA Response to the Royal Commission Project (2023)
- Pedagogy Development: Building on Positive Learnings from COVID-19 (2021 – 2022)
- Review of the Australian Catholic Youth Festival (2020)
- Professional Development for Bishops Survey (2020)
- Survey of Consecrated Virgins (2019)
- Church Governance Survey (2019)
- Survey of Religious Congregations in Australia 2018 (2018 – 2019)
- Understanding Religious Vocation in Australia Today (2014-2018)
- Australian Catholic Bishops’ Youth Survey 2017 (2016 – 2017)
- Our Work Matters: Catholic Church employers and employees in Australia (2015 – 2017)
- Building Stronger Parishes Research Project (2009 – 2015)
- What do Mass attenders believe? (2014)
- What Makes People Feel They belong? (2011)
- See, I am Doing a New Thing! – A Survey of Catholic Religious Institutes (2009)
- Catholics who have ceased attending Mass (2007)
- Who Goes When – Mass attenders and their usual Mass time (2004)