{"id":87796,"date":"2026-10-24T09:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T13:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87796"},"modified":"2026-10-24T09:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T13:38:10","slug":"why-do-some-priests-leave-ministry-new-study-aims-to-find-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/why-do-some-priests-leave-ministry-new-study-aims-to-find-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Some Priests Leave Ministry? New Study Aims To Find Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>OSV News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0A new study has been launched by The Catholic University of America to explore why some priests choose to exit their ministry within a few years of ordination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere is a perception among some bishops and other Catholic leaders that there has been an increase in the number of men leaving priestly ministry in their early years,\u201d said university official Sara Perla. \u201cWe wanted to find out whether that has any basis in the numbers, and if so, what might be contributing to it.\u201d\u00a0 The university\u2019s research initiative, funded by the Knights of Columbus, will \u201cdeepen understanding of the factors behind why Catholic priests decide to leave public ministry,\u201d said lead researcher Brandon Vaidyanathan, professor of sociology at the university and director of its <a href=\"https:\/\/globalstudies.catholic.edu\/\/faculty-and-research\/institutional-flourishing-lab\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institutional Flourishing Lab<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From OSV News: \u00a0A new study has been launched by The Catholic University of America to explore why some priests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87797,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87796\/revisions\/87797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}