Word: pastoralism
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...We’re not highly evangelistic,” says Russell J. Schlecht, the pastor of Grace Street Church, a Protestant congregation that rents space in Old Cambridge Baptist Church and has attracted some of the converts interviewed. “We have a lot of faith that God is actually the one pursuing people. We take a great step backward in that. However, when someone is ready to commit to Christ, we’re right there...
...Indiana and Maryland fans, Easter Sunday was for prayer. As Pastor Michael Youssef of the 4,000-member Church of the Apostles noted in his morning sermon, "We have so many visitors today I'm thankful the Final Four brought us so many people." To which those lucky enough to be in attendance can only say, "Amen...
...right. A white Roman Catholic priest of Irish descent ministering to a mostly Hispanic congregation, Shanahan, along with his flock, is the picture of the Roman Catholic Church's future in the U.S. For a year and a half, he has been the only full-time pastor for the 600 families, most of them Puerto Rican, at St. Mark Parish in near-northwest Chicago. At Mass last Thursday, he became drawn and somber when he talked about the recent scandals, calling them "broken promises...
...Pecharich from his church in early March as soon as it substantiated a single case of abuse, which was decades old. And when Kathryn Barrett-Gaines and her sister, now in their 30s, contacted the archdiocese in Washington two weeks ago to accuse Monsignor Russell Dillard, 54, the popular pastor of the city's oldest African-American Roman Catholic congregation, of "kissing and inappropriate touching" when they were teens, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick immediately suspended his good friend. Dillard told his spiritual superior he "did not exceed the bounds of propriety" any further than "father-daughter kissing." Nevertheless, McCarrick shipped Dillard...
...Conference of Catholic Bishops produced universal guidelines for how zero-tolerance policies will be fairly administered. Jan Malicki, ordained in Poland, came to North Miami in the late '80s as an associate pastor. In 1998 two women accused him of sexual abuse while one of them was a minor. Malicki says the diocese made him a scapegoat, rushing to announce his imminent arrest, and then claimed the church bore no responsibility under First Amendment protections. Even though county investigators concluded two years ago that they had no basis to charge him, Malicki is still on a leave of absence...