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- Title
PASTORS' USE OF PARISH PASTORAL COUNCILS.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the role of pastors in parish pastoral councils. The insistence of the Catholic Church that the pastor is the parish's teacher, sanctifier, and governor makes the pastor a manager. In that role the pastor needs to receive advice and to delegate. A primary consultative body for the pastor in Catholic parishes is the parish council. When the parish council was first introduced into the life of parish it had a wide variety of purposes. Although there was no unanimity about these purposes, parish councils were undoubtedly envisioned as a tool to help pastors manage parishes. Each year the pastors in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia are surveyed on a variety of topics. This is a report of the pastors' responses on how they employ their pastoral councils. Pastors were asked to identify agenda items for the meetings of the parish pastoral councils in 2004. It suggests that the overall emphasis of parish pastoral councils in this archdiocese clearly focuses on pastoral planning in a variety of forms and on the education/formation of the parish council members.
- Subjects
CLERGY; RELIGIOUS educators; CATHOLIC Church government; PARISH councils; CHURCH committees; DIOCESAN pastoral councils; DIOCESAN councils &; synods; CHURCH polity; RELIGIOUS institutions; PREACHING
- Publication
Review of Religious Research, 2005, Vol 47, Issue 2, p201
- ISSN
0034-673X
- Publication type
Article