Mary Gautier is a senior research associate at CARA, the Center for
Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University. A
sociologist, Mary specializes in Catholic demographic trends in the
United States. At CARA, she edits their quarterly research newsletter,
The CARA Report and other CARA publications, manages CARA databases on
Church information, and specializes in demography and computer-aided
mapping.
Mary served as a parish lay pastoral associate for six years in Baton
Rouge, Louisiana, and received her Ph.D. in sociology from Louisiana
State University. Mary is co-author of two books on sociological and
demographic trends in the Catholic Church. Catholicism USA: A Portrait
of the Catholic Church in the United States was published by Orbis Books
in 2000, and Global Catholicism: Portrait of a World Church was released
in 2003.