Stephen Cranney

Stephen Cranney is a data scientist and sociology lecturer at The Catholic University of America (OSV News). With Stephen Bullivant he has led survey research on Catholics who attend the traditional Latin Mass in the United States. This profile covers that public work only.

In a jointly written July 2024 article, Cranney and Bullivant noted the lack of reliable data on Latin Mass attendees (OSV News). Their 2023 survey found that 44 percent of regular Latin Mass attenders were under 45, compared with 20 percent of other parishioners in the same settings (OSV News). CatholicVote reported on their survey of 446 Catholics attending licit Latin Masses at least once a year, in which 49 percent agreed or strongly agreed that they accept the teachings of the Second Vatican Council and 11 percent disagreed or strongly disagreed.

The two are the authors of Trads: Latin Mass Catholics in the United States, listed by Oxford University Press for late 2026. On 5 March 2026 Pope Leo XIV received them in a private audience, which the Holy See confirmed without describing (OSV News; America); Cranney later told OSV News that they had discussed their research with the Pope (OSV News). OSV News reported that the authors present their work as a corrective to caricatures of traditionalists from either side of the debate. See Young Catholics and the Latin Mass and Leo XIV and the Latin Mass.