There have been protests, and some have questioned their relationship with the church and decided to leave.

Still, some argue that the fallout of the scandal is not necessarily measurable in emptier pews or fewer envelopes left on the collection plate, but instead in the difficult-to-quantify yet palpable angst of the Catholics who have kept coming to Mass.

Some have stayed in the church with the hope of driving change from inside. Others have found that, even with their frustration with church leaders, pulling away from Catholicism was difficult, as their parish is their sanctuary and Mass an essential part of their routine. Some said they were weighing the scandal against the ways in which they see the church, through its charitable and social justice efforts, as a positive force.

“It’s a way of life, a way of being, a way of looking at the world,” Mr. Gibson said. “It’s very difficult to give that up.”

Here in Guilford, a community of around 20,000 people just two hours from New York City, four of the five clergy members accused who served at St. George’s are dead; one was removed from ministry in 2010 and defrocked last year.

Last year, Archbishop Blair said he would release the names of priests accused of abuse going back to 1953, when the archdiocese was formed. Most of the alleged abuse took place in the 1970s and 1980s, well before Archbishop Blair’s arrival in 2013. The archbishop during that period, the Most Rev. John F. Whealon, died in 1991. (Archbishop Blair spent his early career as a parish priest in the Detroit archdiocese and was bishop in Toledo, Ohio, before going to Hartford.)