ABSTRACT
Midway through the two-hour interview that provided the basic data of the study, each subject was given a list of twenty Catholic belief formulas and asked to indicate his position with respect to them on a seven-point scale ranging from “Definitely False” to “Definitely True.” All the beliefs were phrased in a positive manner, so that agreement with them would indicate the subject was orthodox in his beliefs and disagreement that he was unorthodox. The twenty beliefs fell into two major categories and a number of subcategories or types. Ten of the beliefs were designed to deal with “Man and This World.” Five of these were statements about the nature of man, and five were statements about morality. The other ten beliefs were designed to deal with “God and the Other World,” including items about the Church itself, the intersection, it is believed, between God and man.
