The Catholic University of America

IPR Fellow

Rev. Anthony J. Pogorelc, Ph.D.

Anthony J. Pogorelc is a Sulpician priest and has been on the faculty of The Catholic University of America since 2002. He serves on the faculty of the University Seminary at the Theological College, and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology. He has been a researcher at the Life Cycle Institute since 2003. Dr. Pogorelc has an M. Div. from St. Michael’s College, Toronto School of Theology, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Purdue University.

Dr. Pogorelc’s  main specialization is the sociology of religion, and his research has dealt especially with social movements. For example, he examined the relationship between Call to Action and U.S. Catholic Bishops, as a case study of a social movement within the organization of the Catholic Church. Within this study, he analyzed the social forces that shaped the four phases of this relationship, a relationship that shifted from initial cooperation to eventual opposition, then back to cooperation, and then back again to opposition. With Professor William V. D'Antonio, Dr. Pogorelc is co-author of a book on Voice of the Faithful, a lay-generated social movement that originated in Boston as a response to the 2002 scandal surrounding clerical sexual abuse and its cover-up.

Dr. Pogorelc also studies professional ministry in religious institutions. He has recently written on the role of pastoral practice in formation for ministry, and on spiritual direction. An active member of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, the Religious Research Association, and the Association for the Sociology of Religion, he regularly makes presentations at their annual meetings. He is also a member of the American Sociological Association and of the D.C. Sociological Society.

 

Contact Information

Email: pogorelc[at]cua.edu
Phone: (202) 319-5999

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Department: Department of Sociology