A Pastor�s Toolbox
Liturgical Press (Verlag)
978-0-8146-3808-8 (ISBN)
Today’s parish leaders are expected to be holy and prayerful spiritual guides, great preachers and compassionate confessors, but also to make important decisions in key areas like finance, budgeting, hiring and firing, fundraising, risk management, relationship-building, and more—often with virtually no transition or training. And with all the requisite education in philosophy and theology they must provide future pastors, in addition to formation in priestly spirituality and pastoral care, seminaries can do little to prepare priests to deal with the difficult temporal issues pastors face. A Pastor’s Toolbox is designed to help fill that void. It is loaded with valuable information, insights, and practical tools that pastors need in order to begin handling the complexities of parish management in the twenty-first century.The book is an outgrowth of The Toolbox for Pastoral Management, a nationally recognized joint project of The National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management and Seton Hall University. The Leadership Roundtable is a nonprofit organization of Catholic lay leaders, religious, and clergy working together to promote excellence and best practices in the management, finances, communications, and human resources development of the Catholic Church in the U.S. through the greater incorporation of the expertise of the laity. Learn more at www.TheLeadershipRoundtable.org.
Reverend Paul A. Holmes, STD,is distinguished university professor of Servant Leadership at Seton Hall University, where he has taught moral and sacramental theology since 1988 and served as vice president for nine years. For many years, he served as spiritual director for the Clergy Consultation and Treatment Service at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Harrison, New York.
Contents
Preface vii
Thomas J. Healey
Introduction 1
Paul A. Holmes
1. A Theology of Management: Why We Do What We Do 5
Paul A. Holmes
2. Pastoral Leadership 19
Robert Stagg
3. A Six-Month Game Plan 31
Jim Lundholm-Eades
4. Getting Started: The Parish Business Office 41
Maria Mendoza
5. Developing a Comprehensive Human Resources Program 50
David Boettner
6. Risk Management 63
John McGovern
7. Best Practices in Parish Internal Financial Controls 73
Charles E. Zech
8. Fundraising as Christian Stewardship 84
Kerry A. Robinson
9. Pastoring and Administering a Mission-Driven Church 93
Jack Wall
10. Building Councils 102
Dennis Corcoran
11. Standards for Excellence 112
Michael Brough
12. Parish Planning 124
Jim Lundholm-Eades
13. Unity in Diversity 138
Arturo Chávez
14. The Pastor and the Diocese 148
Franklyn Casale
15. In Pursuit of Priestly Well-Being 161
Paul S. Manning
Appendix A: Performance Improvement Memo 171
Appendix B: Total Compensation 172
Appendix C: Procedures of the Office of Conciliation, Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis 174
Contributors 177
| Verlagsort | Collegeville, MN |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 259 g |
| Themenwelt | Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8146-3808-2 / 0814638082 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8146-3808-8 / 9780814638088 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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