Some 640 out of 800 families of St. Thomas More Parish in Paradise, California, lost their homes in the wildfires. The Sacramento Diocese and the Knights of Columbus respond. Rewrite the Christmas ...

According to a position paper the council released Jan. 17, the archdiocese had a pastoral council with elected lay representatives from about 1967 until the late 1990s, when it was renamed the ...

The finance council should be made up of at least three Catholics who are experts in financial and legal matters, chosen by the priest or elected in some way by the parish.

Dominican Sister Donna L. Ciangio, chancellor of the Archdiocese of Newark, N.J., displays some of the training materials she uses with parish pastoral councils June 16, 2021.

The Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish Pastoral Council has told Cardinal Timothy Dolan in a letter that it opposes a proposal that would merge two Roman Catholic parishes in the city of Poughkeepsie ...

Pastoral councils for targeted Catholic parishes meet ... representatives of several affected parish pastoral councils will meet tonight in New Orleans to discuss the future of their parishes ...

Youngstown Bishop David Bonnar announced the parish mergers are the next stage in the diocese’s pastoral planning process for its parishes, which comes after ongoing consultation with the ...