Pastor’s Pen – June 28, 2015

So what is the Parish Planning Process? (Continued from last week) Here is the hard data from the archdiocese. Though we rank pretty highly in relationship to other dioceses around the country in terms of the number of priests and ratio of priests to lay people, as...

Pastor’s Pen – June 21, 2015

What does it mean to be church? That was the question that Bishop Edward Clark of Los Angeles found himself asking. Confronted with changing demographics, both within the parishes under his guidance, and the number of priest available to serve those parishes, it was...