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I\u2019ve written a couple of times now on vision<\/a> and pastoral planning<\/a>. I believe that we need to adopt good business practices and leadership strategies to make parish operations more efficient. However, we have to remember that Church leadership is not entirely a human endeavor, and that means some big differences in how the Church approaches leadership as compared to secular business. What we don\u2019t need is totally radical changes that undermine the essential structures of the Church.<\/p>\n

I was reminded of this recently on reading a quote from Pope Benedict at The Catholic Spirit<\/em><\/a> where he said that \u201ca true renewal of the ecclesial community is not achieved so much with a change in the structures as much as with a sincere spirit of penitence and conversion.\u201d The Pope was speaking in a general audience regarding clergy abuse and referencing St. Hildegard of Bingen, who in her own time dealt with serious clerical abuses and fought calls for inauthentic reform. St. Hildegard said that holiness, from both clergy and laity, was the key to reform.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a passage in The Soul of the Apostolate<\/em> that speaks to this. It says:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the priest is a saint (the saying goes), the people will be fervent; if the priest is fervent, the people will be pious; if the priest is pious, the people will at least be decent. But if the priest is only decent, the people will be godless. The spiritual generation is always one degree less intense in its life than those who beget it in Christ.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, as the pastor goes, so goes the parish. The priest is the spiritual leader of his parish and as such he is like a channel through which the grace of God flows. Through him it can flow freely to the parishioners or it can get dammed up. It depends on the priest\u2019s holiness and the depth of his interior life.<\/p>\n

What is desperately needed for Church reform is holiness. It must come from the laity as well as the clergy. In this we are all joined together. The leadership of the Church must work for the spiritual renewal of parish life before any change can take place. We in parish leadership must do everything humanly possible to set the stage for success by planning our parish processes to work toward the holiness of our members. However, that just builds a foundation for God\u2019s work to take place. He works through us but it is His work.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t need to abolish priestly celibacy. We don\u2019t need to give the leadership of the Church over to the laity or lay councils. We most definitely don\u2019t need our amazing and incredibly holy spiritual father, Pope Benedict, to resign! The answer to clergy abuse and dwindling numbers and spiritual illiteracy among the faithful is a recommitment to God in penance and conversion. That\u2019s how the Saints reformed and renewed the Church in every age and that\u2019s how it will be accomplished today.<\/p>\n

(Image courtesy of Elizabeth Porter)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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