Book Review: Shaping Catholic Parishes
September 10, 2008In a review of "Shaping Catholic Parishes" for Church Magazine, Bill Pickett names the value of this first book -- the first in the Emerging Models of Pastoral Leadership Series -- for those dealing with change in parish leadership.
View this ArticleIn a review for Church Magazine, pastoral Planner Bill Pickett looks at the contribution of the first in a series of books to be published by Loyola Press for the Emerging Models Project. According to Pickett, Shaping Catholic Parishes is a valuable resource for "all those who work to assist the church respond to change in a healthy and coherent fashion. For all of us, change is constant, necessary for life, and often frightening. Change bids us go where we have not been. It helps to have stories about those who have gone there and not only survived but thrived. No matter the situation, at least one of these stories can provide that needed perspective."
Please read the full review in Church.
Copies of the book may be purchsed from the Project Partners or from Loyola Press.
Reviewed by William Pickett, author of A Concise Guide to Pastoral Planning (Ave Maria Pess, 2008). A past Chair of the Conference of Pastoral Planning and Council Develo0pment, Pickett served as Rochester diocesan director of Pastoral Planning from 1997 to 2006.
