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To: ansel12
All Catholic parishes, as far as I know, have priests for pastors. They in turn have associate pastors (also priests) and deacons as their assistants.

The exception would be where you don't have enough priests to have a resident priest for each parish, so you have "clusters" where there's one priest for several parishes. In such cases you'd typically have a "pastoral team" in each parish responsible for administration, and this could be composed of deacons, sisters, maybe even officers from the parish council (elected laypeople) --- but they would all be under the authority of that one priest, the pastor.

I hope I haven't been confusing.

23 posted on 03/14/2014 12:18:13 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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To: Mrs. Don-o

What I was asking about was, when you kept using the word “pastor”, were you describing a priest.

Most of us are used to Catholics calling priests, priest.


31 posted on 03/14/2014 12:50:47 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism)
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