After seeing public Masses canceled for weeks earlier this year, parishes across the country have reopened even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, but are the faithful coming back? Parish and diocesan officials interviewed by Our ...
The recent Vatican instruction on pastoral care clarifies the responsibility of every member of the church community to work together in the shared mission of evangelization and warns against turning the parish into a mere ...
The Vatican's Congregation for Clergy issued a new instruction on pastoral care that specifies the role of lay men and women in the church's mission of evangelization and offers guidance in parish reforms and restructuring. The ...
Over the next two years, the Archdiocese of Detroit will transition to a new pastoral and governance model for its 218 parishes called "families of parishes," Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron announced May 31, the feast ...
When parishioners begin returning to their churches as pandemic restrictions are gradually lifted, the buildings will look the same, but the environment might feel different because of new social-distancing measures. For example, in Houston, a ...
After nearly two months without public Masses because of the coronavirus pandemic, dioceses — mostly in the South and Midwest — have begun allowing pastors to celebrate Masses for the faithful again. All of the ...
With Sunday Mass offertory collections virtually nonexistent during the coronavirus pandemic, dioceses are helping their parishes tap into revenue sources to help keep one crisis from becoming a second crisis. One such revenue source is ...
As more governors begin talking about reopening their states, most of which have been shut down for almost two months because of the coronavirus pandemic, a growing number of the nation’s Catholic bishops are looking ...
For most of us, entering our parish church is like walking into our home. We know where everything is located, the pictures on the wall, the furniture, our favorite seat. Even when we go to ...
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