The Archdiocese is reinstating the limit of two six-year terms for pastors ...
My bishop also reinstated this practice in our diocese. By shifting priests around, they bring their God-given abilities from one parish and apply them in another. Fr. George Rutler, who was moved from Christ Our Saviour on Park Ave to St. Michael's on West 34th St in NYC, is a good example of how those gifts can benefit both large and small parishes. As an aside, here is an example of the benefit of having celibate priests.
Is the term limit he is reinstating a dioscean regulation or is it higher, like regional or national that was simply waved by the local diocese ?
IE. Will there be shuffling beyond this diocese ?
In general, this is a good policy. It keeps yo from getting a Fr. Pfleger problem.
It’s a good policy. Each priest brings unique gifts to a parish, and a good bishop matches the needs of the parish to the gifts of the priests. But often, after a period of some years, after the parish enjoys an abundance of a particular priest’s gifts, they begin to have deficits in other areas, where the particular priest may not be strong. They’ve developed different needs, and a new pastor will fill those better than the current one, and another parish may have greater need of the first parish’s pastor’s gifts.
And of course, there are the [many] talentless priests whose tenure should be limited at any particular parish, lest the parish be destroyed by the long-term occupancy of the failed priest. Sadly, we eventually call many of these priests “Excellency,” or even “Eminence.”