Parish Challenges

Book Reviews

• Becoming a Pastoral Parish Council by Patricia Carroll Reviewed by Independent Catholic News

• Becoming a Parish of Intentional Disciples edited by Sherry Weddell Reviewed by Eric Gallagher.

Articles and Commentaries

• New Ebook Helps Parishes Reach More People by Pushpay/Crux

• Rozanski’s call: St. Louis archbishop to decide fate of dozens of Catholic parishes by Jesse Bogan St. Louis Post-Dispatch

• Can laypeople lead a parish? Look to Louisville for a thriving example by Jospeh Martos National Catholic Reporter

• Two years into pandemic, some Catholic parishes stretching their dollars by Brian Fraga National Catholic Reporter

• Italian bishop suspends priest who campaigns against vaccine mandate by Breitbart

• Priest Resigns After Two Decades of Performing 'Invalid' Baptisms by Nick Mordowanec U.S.News

• Chicago Catholic parishes facing steep hardships during pandemic, but leaders remain hopeful by Karen Ann Cullotta The Chicago Tribune

• The Pandemic Has Hit Catholic Parishes Hard, Also Taking a Toll on Priests by Luke Coppen Catholic News Agency/National Catholic Register

• Filling vital US ministry roles, foreign-born priests need deliberate support to thrive by Maria Benevento  National Catholic Reporter

• Cardinal Kasper Defends Vatican Instruction on Parishes by Catholic News Agency/National Catholic Register

• Mississippi in Yiddish. The story of a hugely popular play about African Americans falsely accused of raping two white women in 1931 in Scottsboro, Alabama—that premiered in 1935 Warsaw by Alyssa Quint  Tablet

• Explainer: 5 takeaways from the Vatican’s new document on parish reform by Colleen Dulle  America

• Survey of bishops reveals how pandemic has shaken diocesan, parish life by Dennis Sadowski CatholicNews Service/National Catholic Reporter

• Returning churchgoers greeted with new normal of distance and disinfectant by Peter FeuerherdNational Catholic Reporter

• Catholic priests may be feeling ‘nonessential’ during the pandemic- here’s how you can help by CNA Daily News/The Catholic World Report

• How parishes can tackle the U.S. church’s money crisis by Michael White and Tom Corcoran America

• Notre Dame sisters mobilize to fend off child traffickers in Tanzania by Doreen Ajiamb  Global Sisters Report

• Gone: Pastor says half of his parishioners were seized in ICE raid by Deacon Greg Kandra  Patheos

• Large number of Dutch churches to close in near future by Michiel van de Kamp and  Katholiek Nieuwsblad  Crux

• German bishop says only a new theology can save the Church, Heiner Wilmer of Hildesheim diocese says clerical abuse of power is destroying Catholicism by Christa Pongratz-Lippitt La Croix International

• Pope Francis has been bombarded with insults after urging Catholics to pray for migrants. by CathNews

• The parish is dead, long live the parish by Gauthier Vaillant  La Croix International

• Parents, citing pastor's hostility, plan to pull their kids from school by Dan Morris-Young National Catholic Reporter

• Teenagers leaving Church at a higher rate – study by Colm Fitzpatrick The Irish Catholic