Brandon is an Associate Professor and Department Chair of Sociology at The Catholic University of America and Templeton Religion Trust grantee, who studies the cultural dimensions of commercial, scientific, and religious institutions. Over the past decade, he has worked on multiple large-scale projects spanning 11 countries, including design, implementation, oversight, qualitative and quantitative data analysis, and communication with multiple audiences. He also consults with organizations and conducts workshops on Design Thinking.
Catholic priests in the United States worry about false accusations of abuse and how much their bishops would support them if that were to happen, according to the largest survey of its kind in more than 50 years.
There’s an immense amount of variation among priests in how much they trust their particular bishop. It varies from 0% to 100%, depending on what diocese you’re looking at, in terms of the level of confidence they have in their own bishop.