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	NACBA Information
		Tragically, clergy sometimes abuse the sacred relationships they have with individuals in a congregation or with a congregation as a whole.
		Regardless of who is at fault, when the relationship between clergy and congregation is significantly harmed, great pain is inflicted upon all involved, especially the witness of the body of Christ to the world.
		In addition, the clergy should state a commitment to follow the process established for addressing disappointments and grievances with the congregation, including the willingness to work with the help and resources requested by the congregation.
	www.nacba.net /Article/AB_Clergy_Church.htm (881 words)

	Episcopal Diocese of New York: Part VI - Clergy and Congregations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Authority to Establish New Congregations: The authority to establish new congregations is vested in the Bishop, acting with the advice and consent of the Standing Committee and the Trustees of the Diocese.
		The Vicar of a Mission Congregation shall be the President of the Advisory Board and shall preside at all of its meetings and at all meetings of the congregation.
		Transfer of Status from Mission Congregation to Congregation: The Bishop, with the approval of the Standing Committee and the Trustees of the Diocese, may approve a request from Mission Congregation to become a Congregation when, in his/her opinion, such change of status is warranted, and upon such terms as the Bishop shall deem appropriate.
	dioceseny.org /index.cfm?Action=AboutUs.PartVIClergyandCongregations... (2242 words)

	Clergy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clergy is the generic term used to describe the formal religious leadership within a given religion.
		In some cases clergy are financed (or co-financed) by the state, but usually they are financially supported by the donations of individual members of their religion.
		The clergy of the Orthodox Church are the bishops, priests, and deacons, the same offices identified in the New Testament and found in the early church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clergy (3621 words)

	Clergy
		Clergy are religious and spiritual leaders who help answer such questions and teach or interpret their faith or tradition.
		Being a clergy member requires great faith and dedication, since clergy usually work with people in their most difficult moments--after a death, during a divorce, or in the course of an illness or some other crisis.
		Clergy are expected to follow their faith as a calling and not as a source of wealth.
	www3.ccps.virginia.edu /career_prospects/briefs/A-D/Clergy.shtml (1065 words)

	The Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut: Clergy Discretionary Fund Guidelines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The member of the clergy in charge of a congregation customarily has a special fund made available by the Vestry, the expenditure of which is under the authority of the cleric.
		The member of the clergy in charge of the congregation also may grant assistant clergy, depending on local custom, permission to expend monies from the discretionary fund, or the Vestry may establish separate funds for the use of the assistant clergy.
		In most areas clergy have made prior arrangements with drug stores, gas stations, grocery stores, etc. to have persons make purchases with the approval of the clergy, and a check is written directly to the vendor upon receipt of the bill.
	www.ctdiocese.org /resources/clergy_discretionary.shtml (1316 words)

	Congregational Resource Guide Article: Fair Pay for Your Pastor
		The pastor who is expected by her congregation to be a celebrated scholar, psychoanalyst, administrator, guidance counselor, sacramentalist, storyteller, teacher, and shaman is doomed to failure.
		A simple although sparsely used rule of thumb when setting the clergy package is to find the average living earned by families within your congregation and then offer that to your pastor as his salary package.
		It is the church's responsibility either to provide its clergy with a vehicle and gasoline credit card or to reimburse the clergy for their automotive expense.
	www.congregationalresources.org /article0418.asp (1561 words)

	Clergy Compensation Handbook - 2003
		Congregations were given the option of achieving the minimum by increasing the compensation in two steps – half of the difference between the 2002 compensation and the required levels in 2003, and the remaining amount in 2004.
		The recommended procedure is that, as an employer, a congregation should reimburse clergy for actual out-of-pocket expenses incurred in performance of his or her duties that are substantiated in writing (by filing an expense account with appropriate receipts attached) within a reasonable time after the expenses are incurred.
		Congregations should take care to make all pension contributions in a timely fashion, while participating clergy should, not less than once each year, examine their account at the Church Pension Fund to be certain all required contributions have been paid when due and correctly recorded.
	www.diomaine.org /comphandbook.htm (7675 words)

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		This assessment was adapted from Ministry Assessment Process: Clergy and Congregations, Section of Elders and Local Pastors Division of Ordained Ministry General Board of Higher Education and Ministry.
		Introduction to the Assessment of the Congregation and Clergy The mission of the Church is to make disciples of Jesus Christ by proclaiming the good news of God’s grace and by exemplifying Jesus’ command to love God and neighbor, thus seeking the fulfillment of God’s reign and realm in the world.
		This assessment along with the clergy’s consultation with the district superintendent and self assessment is used to develop a pastor profile reflecting the pastor’s gifts, evidence of God’s grace, professional experience and expectations, and also the needs and concerns of the pastor’s family.
	www.gbgm-umc.org /missriver/2005_Clergy_Congregation_Assessment.doc (1658 words)

	Clergy Notes - Changing Expectations for Clergy Activists
		Congregations often describe the ideal clergy person in paradoxical terms: experienced, but youthful; charismatic, and unpretentious; hard-working, yet family-oriented; challenging, while non-controversial; creative, and yet conventional.
		Sue Crawford’s Clergy at Work in the Secular City, a study of Protestant clergy in Indianapolis, reports that about half of the ministers who responded to her survey felt an obligation "to be involved in activities outside of religious education, worship, and building maintenance."
		Clergy continue to care about the welfare of the broader community, but to act on those concerns they must often do so on their own initiative.
	www.polis.iupui.edu /RUC/Newsletters/Clergy/vol4no4.htm (1556 words)

	Congregation of the Mission
		Vincent de Paul founded the Congregation of the Mission in 1625 for the evangelization of the poor and the formation of the clergy.
		The Congregation should pay special attention to developing and living up to these five virtues so that they may be, as it were, the faculties of the soul of the whole Congregation, and that everything each one of us does may always be inspired by them.
		The Congregation of the Mission is a Society of Apostolic Life comprising priests and lay brothers.
	www.vincenter.org /tree/cm/index.html (1571 words)

	CNS STORY: Pope names Brazilian cardinal as new prefect of clergy congregation
		Although Cardinal Castrillon is retiring at the age of 77 from the clergy congregation, he continues to serve as president of the Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei," which ensures pastoral care to former followers of traditionalist Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who was excommunicated in 1988 after ordaining bishops without papal approval.
		The Congregation for Clergy, in addition to promoting initiatives for the ongoing spiritual, intellectual and pastoral formation of diocesan priests and permanent deacons, also is responsible for the promotion of religious education through Catholic parishes.
		Cardinal Hummes is a member of the Vatican congregations for the Doctrine of the Faith, Divine Worship and the Sacraments and for Bishops.
	www.catholicnews.com /data/stories/cns/0606189.htm (809 words)

	Alban Weekly - Week of 7/10/06 - Choosing Clergy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A congregation seeking a new clergy leader is like a person in good health with an itch—oblivious to the health, preoccupied with the itch.
		After a long ministry, a congregation may form camps: one anxious to hold on to what they valued in the former minister, the other eager finally to move forward in directions the departing leader did not allow.
		When the congregation is divided, two years may make it possible to do substantial interim work before the search committee is selected so that the selection will not reflect divisions over the past clergyperson.
	www.alban.org /weekly/2006/060710_ChoosingClergy.asp (644 words)

	Clergy Notes - Connecting the Congregation and the Academy
		Clergy are involved in issues of community all the time.
		So we have a lot to learn from their perspective and from the questions that are of concern to them.
		The workshop will feature a viewing of one of the episodes, followed by group discussion of how the videos may be used by congregational study groups.
	www.polis.iupui.edu /RUC/Newsletters/Clergy/vol2no2.htm (664 words)

	Letter on “Instruction” From the Vatican's Congregation on Catholic Education
		Already in 1996, in fact, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith invited this congregation to prepare an instruction concerning the criteria for the discernment of vocations with reference to those with homosexual tendencies.
		The draft versions of the document were submitted, for examination, to the fathers of this congregation at the plenary sessions held in 1998, 2002 and 2005.
		The Congregation for Catholic Education, in publishing this document, wants to offer bishops, major superiors and all superiors whom it may concern, a useful tool for carrying out an attentive and prudent discernment regarding the suitability of candidates for holy orders, from their admission to the seminary until their ordination.
	www.adoremus.org /CCE_LetterDiscernmentVocations.html (788 words)

	The Priest and the Third Christian Millennium (3-99)
		The entire Church prepares to enter the third millennium since the Incarnation of the Word in a spirit of penance, and, by the continued Apostolic solicitude of the Successor of Peter, is stimulated to an ever more lively recollection of the will of her divine Founder.
		At its Plenary Assembly of 13-15 October 1998, the Congregation for the Clergy, in a spirit of intimate communion with that objective, decided to entrust the enclosed circular letter to every Ordinary, for transmission to their priests.
		Star of the new evangelization, who from the outset gladdened and renewed the hearts of the apostles and their helpers in their spreading the Gospel, at the dawn of the third millennium, cause to grow in priests an increasing realization that they are primarily responsible for new evangelization.
	www.adoremus.org /priest3rdmill.html (12875 words)

	[CATHOLIC NEWS] Shifting roles for Vatican offices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Congregation for the Clergy will assume responsibilities for cases in which priests or deacons seek a dispensation from the clerical state.
		The Congregation for the Clergy has, up until now, handled all administrative matters regarding priests and bishops of the Latin rite, with the exception of petitions for dispensation from clerical obligations.
		The Congregation for the Clergy was created by Pope Paul VI, and has three sections: The Clergy office supervises the spiritual and intellectual formation of priests and deacons; the Catechetical office sets norms for religious instruction; and the Administrative office manages the financial, legal, and medical needs of the clergy.
	www.solt3.org /pipermail/catholicnews/2005-July/005658.html (510 words)

	vpd1
		The Ratio fundamentalis institutionis diaconorum permanentium, prepared by the Congregation for Catholic Education, is intended not only as a guideline for the formation of permanent Deacons but also as a directive of which due account is to be taken by the Episcopal Conferences when preparing their respective "Rationes".
		As with the Ratio fundamentalis institutionis sacerdotalis, the Congregation offers this aid to the various Episcopates to facilitate them in discharging adequately the prescriptions of canon 236 of the Code of Canon Law and to ensure for the Church, unity, earnestness and completeness in the formation of permanent Deacons.
		The documents produced here are intended as a response to a widely felt need to clarify and regulate the diversity of approaches adopted in experiments conducted up to now, whether at the level of discernment and training or at that of active ministry and ongoing formation.
	members.tripod.com /~Jeshrall/vpd1.html (1617 words)

	CONGREGATION FOR THE CLERGY
		The Congregation for the Clergy is the new title given by Paul VI to the "Sacred Congregation of the Council", in the Apostolic Constitution Regimini Ecclesiae Universae dated August 15, 1967.
		The history of this Congregation goes back to the Sacra Congregatio Cardinalium Concilii Tridentini interpretum, instituted by Pius IV in the Apostolic Constitution Alias Nos dated Aug. 2, 1564, to ensure a correct interpretation and the practical observance of the norms issued by the Council of Trent.
		Attached to the Congregation for the Clergy is the old Studio Pio, formally instituted by Benedict XV on Oct. 28, 1919, to help young priests to improve their skill in the normal and regular dispatch of ecclesiastical affairs and especially in the application of Canon Law in administrative matters.
	www.vatican.va /roman_curia/congregations/cclergy/documents/rc_con_cclergy_pro_31051999_en.html (478 words)

	Congregation for the Clergy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Congregation for the Clergy (Congregatio pro Clericis) is the congregation of the Roman Curia responsible for overseeing matters regarding priests and deacons not belonging to religious orders.
		The prefect of the Congregation does not deal with clerical sexual abuse cases, as those are handled exclusively by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
		The Congregation for the Clergy has its origins in the "Sacra Congregatio Cardinalium Concilii Tridentini interpretum" instituted by Pope Pius IV on August 2, 1564.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Congregation_for_the_Clergy (196 words)

	Catholic World News : Brazilian cardinal to head Congregation for Clergy?
		Oct. 30, 2006 (CWNews.com) - Cardinal Claudio Hummes of Sao Paulo, Brazil, may soon be named by Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) as the new prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, according to noted Vatican journalist John Allen.
		The Congregation for the Clergy is currently headed by Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos (bio - news), who at the age of 77 is 2 years beyond the usual retirement age.
		Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, prelate, Congregation for the Clergy, Ecclesia Dei commission
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=47362 (831 words)

	The Roman Curia \| Catholic-Pages.com
		This Congregation is responsible for the investigation and examination of the lives and the writings of candidates for beatification and canonization.
		The Congregation for Bishops is responsible for the delineation, division, establishment and merging of Dioceses, for the consideration of candidates to be appointed to Dioceses and the recommendation of candidates to the Holy Father.
		Operating under the aegis of the Congregation for the Clergy, this Commission is responsible for preserving the artistic and historical heritage of the entire Church, including the Vatican Archives and the Vatican Library.
	www.catholic-pages.com /vatican/curia.asp (2004 words)

	Archdiocese of Boston - 10/28/2005 -Report of Parish Reconfiguration Fund Oversight Committee
		On August 11, 2005, Boston newspapers reported that the Vatican’s Congregation for the Clergy has taken the position that the Archdiocese erred in claiming the assets of suppressed parishes.
		The Congregation of the Clergy has wide discretion as to whether it will continue to accept the late appeals of concerned parishes.
		Ethnic parishes are not included in the ongoing discussions because the Congregation for the Clergy has indicated these decrees are properly executed.
	www.rcab.org /Pilot/2005/ps051028/reconfigurationreport.html (558 words)

	January 10, 2006 - Archdiocese of Boston To Begin Search For New Chancellor
		Among these complexities was a decision made by the Congregation for the Clergy regarding the decrees that were used to close parishes.
		As explained by the Archbishop, the intent of the decree as well as subsequent closure of the parishes was that the assets and liabilities of the closed parishes be received by the Archdiocese.
		However, the Congregation stated that the receiving parish, as named in the decree, and not the Archdiocese, would receive the assets and liabilities of the closed parish.
	www.rcab.org /News/releases/2006/statement060114.html (1262 words)

	Fatima Perspectives - Perspective No. 152
		I would be willing to wager that the Vatican’s Congregation for the Clergy has spent more time on what its bureaucrats call "the Father Gruner case" than on any other matter involving a single priest since the Congregation was created.
		Meanwhile, as the ever-vigilant Congregation for the Clergy wastes its time and resources hounding Father Gruner and announcing his contrived "suspension" (on unspecified grounds) to the entire world, the auto-demolition of the Church by errant priests continues on every continent.
		These letters claim that the Congregation’s unprecedented interference in Father Gruner’s incardination by a series of friendly bishops (who would only be too happy to foster his work), and its announcement claiming this faithful priest is "suspended," are motivated by nothing but "vigilance over the clergy" and "the good of souls."
	www.fatimaperspectives.com /ds/perspective152.asp (597 words)

	Congregation for the Clergy
		Norms established by the Congregation for the clergy concerning the practice of Mass stipends (February 22, 1991)
		Therefore, to execute a mandate received by the Supreme Pontiff, the Congregation for the Clergy, which has the jurisdiction of the discipline of this delicate subject, has carried out an extensive consultation on the matter, including the opinions of the conferences of bishops.
		To diocesan bishops in particular falls the duty of promptly and clearly making known these norms, which are valid for secular and religious clergy, and seeing to their observance.
	www.ewtn.com /library/CURIA/CCLSTIPN.HTM (629 words)

	Discussion: Congregation for the Clergy decides again in favour of Fr John Speekman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Congregation for the Clergy has given its decision regarding Father John Speekman’s appeal against his second removal as Parish Priest of Morwell, by Bishop Jeremiah Coffey.
		The Congregation found that the decision they gave in their first Decree of July 2004 still stands and Fr Speekman is to be reinstated as Parish Priest of Morwell!
		The Congregation for the Clergy has now reviewed the Bishop’s reasons and evidence for removing Fr Speekman three times, without being able to find anything that could justify the Bishop’s actions.
	members4.boardhost.com /cathtelecom/msg/1164794613.html (612 words)

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