Vatican instruction on parish life buries dream of lay-clerical co-responsibility by: Cameron Doody- A Backward Step to Father Knows Best- Bridget Mary Meehan ARCWP

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My Response: While the The Vatican is moving backward  to  a "Father knows best" model of parish life,  some Catholics are participating in  inclusive communities where priest and  people are co-responsible partners in proclaiming the gospel, celebrating sacraments and witnessing to social justice in our world.  Bridget Mary Meehan ARCWP

"The reassertion of the authority of the parish priest, and a slap in the face to all those laypeople, religious, priests and bishops who have worked tirelessly to come up with new models of clerical-lay  leadership in the face of the plunge in vocations."

“The Parish Priest and the other priests, in communion with the Bishop, are a fundamental reference point for the Parish community, for the role of shepherds that corresponds to them” (62).

"For the old signs the Congregation for the Clergy is pointing the Church to only lead to one place: right back to that “mere repetitive action” on the part of the Church “that fails to have an impact upon people’s concrete lives” and remains a “sterile attempt at survival” and is “usually welcomed by general indifference”. Or worse: the parish as “a useless structure out of touch with people or a self-absorbed group made up of a chosen few”, as Pope Francis warned in Evangelii Gaudium (28).