CARA honors Sister Katarina Schuth for seminary research

Published: 2005-10-18

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate honored Franciscan Sister Katarina Schuth Oct. 5 for her extensive research on U.S. Catholic seminaries. Researchers must report their findings with wisdom and accuracy and avoid being "co-opted by partisans on either side of an issue," but they must also "have compassion and concern for those who will feel the impact of the results of the research," she said after receiving the award. Sister Schuth is a professor of the scientific study of religion at St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. She is the author of two major studies, in 1989 and 1999, of U.S. Catholic theologates and seminaries and is co-author of a forthcoming study, "Educating Leaders for Ministry: Issues and Responses." She received the Father Louis J. Luzbetak, SVD, Award for Exemplary Church Research, named after the Divine Word priest who was CARA's founding executive director.

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