By our foreign correspondent
New York: The child sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church reduced attendance in mass and donation to the Church, according to a latest survey report.
One in three Catholics who previously went to Mass have reduced their attendance or stopped going altogether as a result of the child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, according to a new report by Durham University here recently.
The YouGov survey was commissioned by the Centre for Catholic Studies at Durham University as part of a wider research project.
There has also been a corresponding fall in the number financial donations, with a third of Catholics who previously donated no longer giving money to the Church.
The project titled “ Boundary Breaking” where researchers are looking at the implications of the abuse crisis for the Catholic community, the survey report revealed.
More 3,000 adults who identified as Catholics responded to questionnaire, with 79 per cent said that the Church needed to change “a great deal” to prevent further cases of child sexual abuse, the report said.
