St. Johns Would Share Pastor Under Plan [POLL]
The single pastor would lead a pastoral team among Swampscott, Nahant and Marblehead churches, a plan intended to improve services and cut costs.
The Archdiocese of Boston is readying a recommendation in response to a shortage of priests and funds. The plan calls for multiple churches, in some cases, to be served by a single pastor who leads a pastoral team, says Archdiocese Spokesman Terry Donilon. One such group would form among St. Thomas Aquinas in Nahant, St. Johns in Swampscott and Our Lady Star of the Sea in Marblehead. There would be 27 collaboratives among parishes in the North Region of the Boston Archdiocese. Church officials say the plan does not call for closing churches or merging them. Rather it calls for a team approach to improve pastoral service and meet the stark realities of the day. Those realities are spelled out by the Boston Archdiocesan Pastoral Planning …
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