Catholics in Australia 2022

The Catholic Church in Australia has changed dramatically in the last fifty years. The Catholics in Australia 2022 survey project aimed to map the impact of some of these changes on Australian Catholics' ways of believing, behaving, and belonging, to see what this might reveal about the future of the Church in Australia. The project was informed by the work of Ben Clements and Stephen Bullivant, who mapped a more general UK Catholic cohort using a similar survey (Clements & Bullivant, 2022). The Catholics in Britain 2019 survey was adapted for the Australian study and collected mostly quantitative data with a final open-text question for optional comments. The project was approved by the University of Notre Dame Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC 2022-119S).