Juan L Gonzales, Jr Author

Dean R. Hoge is professor of Sociology at Catholic University of America. He is the author of, among others, Converts, Dropouts, Returnees: A Study of Religious Change Among Catholics, The Future of Catholic Leadership: Responses to the Priest Shortage, and co-author of Laity, American and Catholic: Transforming the Church.

William D. Dinges is associate professor of Religious Studies in the School of Religion at Catholic University of America. He has published several scholarly articles, and is currently writing a book on the experience of the Mass among American Catholics.

Mary Johnson, SND de N, is associate professor of Sociology and Religious Studies at Emmanuel College. She is the author of several scholarly articles.

Juan L. Gonzales, Jr., is professor of Sociology at California State University, Hayward. He is the author of Racial and Ethnic Groups in America, and Racial and Ethnic Families in America.*