A recent Gallup poll found that 37 percent of Catholic respondents in the United States said that in the wake of the clergy sexual abuse crisis, they have questioned whether to remain in the Catholic Church or not.
A Catholic News Service article quoted Mark Gray, the director of Catholic polls and a senior research associate at Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA), who analyzed the poll results, noting, “There is a substantial difference between considering leaving and leaving. It is also the case among those who do leave, some come back.”
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