While most U.S. adults who attend religious services express confidence in their clergy’s advice, a recent Pew Research Center survey finds that Catholics have considerably less confidence than Protestants. They are also less likely to claim a close relationship with their clergy.

Among U.S. adults who attend religious services at least a few times a year, six-in-ten Catholics (61%) say they have a “very” or “somewhat” close relationship with their clergy, compared with about eight-in-ten Protestants (78%). Just 8% of Catholics say they are very close with their clergy, compared with a quarter of Protestants. And while only 22% of Protestants say they are not close with the clergy at their church, the share among Catholics is nearly twice as high (39%).

Only three-in-ten Catholics say they have “a lot” of confidence in their clergy’s guidance about marriage and relationships. Larger shares of evangelical Protestants (66%), Protestants in the historically black tradition (54%) and mainline Protestants (45%) say the same. And Catholics are much less likely than Protestants overall to trust their religious leaders to give useful advice on parenting (23% vs. 49%, respectively).