Understanding the Ministry and Experience: Parish Life Coordinators in the United States
August 1, 2005Source: Research conducted by Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA)
New to the Roman Catholic Church’s 1983 Code of Canon Law was the following (517, §2): If the diocesan bishop should decide that due to a dearth of priests a participation in the exercise of the pastoral care of a parish is to be entrusted to a deacon or to some other person who is not a priest or to a community of persons, he is to appoint some priest endowed with the powers and faculties of a pastor to supervise the pastoral care.
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