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Context, Change and Hope:
The Catholic Church in America

 

Featured Speaker:
Fr. Thomas Gaunt, SJ
Executive Director of Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) Georgetown University

Wednesday, January 28, 2026
11:15 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Windows on the River
2000 Sycamore Street
Cleveland, OH



Event Details

Father Gaunt will share recent CARA research on: sacramental life, especially among young adults; the impact of mobility and immigration; and the closing and opening of parishes.  He will also touch on recent national polling on Catholic attitudes about the Eucharist and other Church teachings. CARA is a national research center affiliated with Georgetown University that conducts social scientific studies about the Catholic Church.

Speaker Bio

Father Gaunt, SJ, has served as the Executive Director of the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University in Washington, DC since 2011. He has recently edited or co-authored Pathways to Religious Life (2018), Catholic Bishops in the United States: Church Leadership in the Third Millennium (2019), New Faces, New Possibilities: Cultural Diversity and Structural Change in Institutes of Women Religious (2022), and Faith and Spiritual Life of Young Adult Catholics (2022).

Prior to coming to CARA, Father Gaunt served in Jesuit governance as the Socius/Executive Secretary of the Jesuit Conference-USA for nine years and the Formation and Studies Director of the Maryland and New York Jesuit Provinces for seven years. After ordination, he spent ten years in pastoral ministry in the Diocese of Charlotte. Father Gaunt has a master’s in public administration and a Ph.D. in city and regional planning from the University of North Carolina.

Registration is required. Please RSVP below by January 21, 2026.

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