What do Mass Attenders Believe?

Date of publication: February 2014

Is there any evidence that the cultural changes of the last fifty years or so have influenced the way that Australia’s most active Catholics think about key Catholic beliefs and moral teachings? This paper examines the question of whether changes in Australian culture have influenced the beliefs and moral attitudes of active Catholics by looking at responses from Mass attenders to selected questions in the 2011 National Church Life Survey.

Report details: February 2014. Robert Dixon, What do Mass Attenders believe? Contemporary cultural change and the acceptance of key Catholic beliefs and moral teachings by Australian Mass attenders, Progress Report. Pastoral Research Office, Australian Catholic Bishops Conference.

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