Study: Students, faith, Catholic colleges

Inside Higher Ed: “The research finds that Catholic students at Catholic colleges are less likely than Catholic students at other colleges to move away from the church and more likely to turn toward it. Further, the study finds that the Catholic students at Catholic colleges — while moving away from the church on some issues — more toward the church on others, including both political and philosophical views and specific actions, such as the reading of sacred texts.”

Via David French, Director of the ADF Center for Academic Freedom, who writes at Phi Beta Cons:

Of course, despite this profound connection Catholic college students will not only move away from the Church’s teaching on abortion and same-sex marriage, they are also less likely to attend mass and less likely to pray after four years at a Catholic school. But there is a bright side: Not only are students more likely to support a cut in defense spending (yes, that was one of the attitudes surveyed), their decline in religiosity is ever-so-slightly less extreme than it would be had they attended a public university.