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Best Practices for Shared Parishes seeks to assist pastors of culturally diverse parishes in the challenging yet rewarding task of building unity in diversity. Developed from a study of pastors who successfully increased parishioner integration and inclusion in their parishes, the recommendations in this book can help pastors and parish leadership teams respond to challenging ministerial situations and growing demographic changes. This bilingual English and Spanish guide identifies pastoral responses and proven approaches to intercultural competencies in attitudes, knowledge, and skills. This book helps parishes discern pastoral planning strategies and opportunities that can lead to a higher level of stewardship and engagement.
Best Practices for Shared Parishes: So That They All May Be One is a guide to assist pastors of culturally diverse parishes in the challenging yet rewarding task of building unity in diversity. This bilingual English and Spanish guide identifies pastoral responses and proven best practices in relation to intercultural competencies in attitudes, knowledge, and skills. It helps parishes discern pastoral planning strategies and opportunities that will lead to a higher level of stewardship.
Changes in the Catholic Church are happening everywhere, not least in the area of pastoral planning. Based on the experiences of more than 500 of today's pastoral leaders in the Catholic Church, The Changing Face of Church documents the best practices for approaching the massive, rapidly evolving challenge of pastoral planning. A hopeful view of the Church's future and its leadership comes through clearly from those who were interviewed for this book, and the you-can-do-it-too message is sure to bolster readers in their own pastoral planning efforts.
"The demographic transformation of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States by immigration from Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific Islands provides a social context for this study of a shared parish in the Midwestern United States. Shared parishes-where two or more cultures enjoy distinct masses and ministries but share the facilities--constitute a common local response across the United States to this demographic transformation. This dissertation focuses on the single parish in a small city dramatically altered by immigration largely from Mexico. This study of one shared parish makes use of a theological methodology called participatory witness (parWit). It applies community-based research principles (such as in participatory action research, or PAR) to ethnographic and congregational studies research. With the cooperation of parishioners over ten months, this research process elicited theologies of mission elaborated around five themes deemed important to the practical life of the parish in its historical, cultural, and ecclesial context. The themes are: 1) social order, 2) worship, 3) faith formation in the Latino/a community, 4) hospitality in the Euro-American community, and 5) unity and integration. The author refines these themes in dialogue with larger church teaching and theology based on initial reactions to such teaching and theology he previously uncovered in the parish. In contrast to most scholarly studies of "parallel congregations" or "multiethnic congregations," this study focuses attention on the intercultural dynamics that a shared parish creates between its distinct communities. This intercultural focus-as well as an additional attentiveness to peculiarly Catholic connections between local parish and the larger church-demonstrates how the investigation of contemporary Catholic parishes requires frameworks and methodologies beyond those commonly in use in congregational studies. Moreover, this study also articulates a local and practical theology of mission, a still somewhat underappreciated approach to mission within missiology. Finally, it begins to expand upon communion ecclesiology as a language and approach superior to multiculturalism in addressing cultural diversity in the church."--Abstract
Making Parish Councils Pastoral traces the historical development of the ôpastoralö style of council and shows how councils can more effectively embrace the church's vision of studying and reflecting on parish matters and recommending their conclusions to the pastor.
For many Catholics today, the leaders described above don't exist. For just as many, "parish leadership" does not equal "good news." But Father Michael Papesh believes it certainly CAN, and here he offers guidelines, tools, and ideas for making it happen. By sharing pastoral leadership and structuring power distribution, he says a parish can enjoy, be, mirror, proclaim, and bring to the world the transforming goodness of God. And thus he offers a "whole system" model for pastoral leadership that is theologically grounded in the hospitality of God as revealed through the ministry of Jesus.
As an adjunct to the Best Practices in Church Management Series, Creativity in Church Management covers a number of topics that, while important, do not warrant their own volumes in the series. Topics include co-responsibility, managing parish diversity, and issues surrounding parish reconfiguration and consolidation.
Catholic parishes in the United States have been going through some major structural changes in the last couple of decades. The merging, closing and collaborating of parishes has become an undeniable part of the Catholic landscape in the United States. With the declining number of priests and religious as well as the significant shifts in the demographics of the Catholic population, the number of parishes without a resident pastor continues to grow. Furthermore, closed, merged and collaborating parishes have been on the rise, and they will continue in the years to come mainly in the Northeast and the Midwest parts of the country. The aim of this book is to develop helpful pastoral recommendations for pastors and parish leaders who oversee the process of closing, merging and collaborating of parishes. In addition, this book will present a concise historical development of Catholic parishes in connection with its canonical rights and obligations. The theological and theoretical aspects of this book will serve as a way to offer some insights into what it means to be a member of a parish community. No parish can survive without a specific mission and vision for the future. This book will offer some practical ideas used to assess various parish ministries and the overall vibrancy of a parish community. First hand experiences of pastors and parish leaders will be used in order to understand how parish mergers, closures and collaborations affect all parties involved in this process and to point out some recommended and discouraged pastoral practices.
In 2003, Roger Cardinal Mahony concluded an Archdiocesan Synod that promulgated six Pastoral Initiatives, governing the contemporary Church of Los Angeles, in a pastoral letter, Gathered and Sent. The objectives of the Synodal Pastoral Initiatives were stated by Mahony as, a continuation ". . . for greater collaboration and mutuality in the exercise of ministry in the Church." The issue of collaborative parish leadership has become significant in an archdiocese that ministers to five million Catholics. The contribution to ministry is evidenced by the Archdiocesan mandates for effective collaboration in parish leadership. Equally important to the effective development and implementation of a joint formation model is the strong leadership and support by the cardinal and the regional bishop that has already been demonstrated. Responding to the development of parish leadership teams comprised of ordained and lay ecclesial ministers (LEMs), Norman Cooper, author of Collaboration: Communion, Contention, Commitment, emphasizes joint formation (training that involves ordained and LEMs together) as a critical component of collaborative parish ministry. Interestingly, the Emerging Models of Pastoral Leadership Project informs that formation directors have indicated that there is a scarcity of functioning models fostering joint formation. To support the Archdiocesan mandate for joint formation, a project was designed to pilot a formation workshop model with the primary objective of focusing on collaborative parish leadership engaging both priests and lay ecclesial ministers in joint decision making. The workshop was conducted in two sessions incorporating distinct methodologies. In 2009, a joint formation pilot entitled "Parish Leadership: A Shared Responsibility" consisted of a dialogue and development session including 160 parish leaders representing 27 parishes (more than 30% of the San Gabriel Pastoral Region). Elements that contribute to collaborative leadership were identified and implemented in the second session that engaged participants in a pastoral planning exercise, encouraging prayerful reflection, shared visioning, integration of gifts and collaborative decision making. Influence on leadership styles was evaluated with a Thomas-Kilmann tool measuring pre- and post workshop behaviors. Effectiveness of the pilot formation sessions was indicated by the modification of participants' leadership styles toward collaborative behaviors and recommendations by an Archdiocesan Pastoral Council document to implement the joint formation workshop model at several levels: In Archdiocesan Offices; the five Pastoral Regions governed by Auxiliary Bishops, the local seminary and universities.