Theology

HELPING CATHOLIC LEADERS BUILD AMAZING PARISHES
What does an Amazing Parish look like? If you’re ready to build an effective leadership team and improve the organizational health of your parish, we hope you’ll join us. Amazing Parish gives busy pastors and their teams the tools they need to transform their parishes—moving from maintenance mode to mission communities that are truly alive!

ePriest's three services to today's parish priests:

weekly best practices
profiles of practices that are currently working in real parishes
touching all sectors of parish life: sacraments, outreach, faith formation, family, youth, vocation promotion, administration and finance, and ongoing priestly formation
weekly homily packs
ingredients for effective homilies
preaching tips
ready-made Spanish-language homilies
an online community
where English-speaking priests from around the world can exchange ideas, experiences, and encouragement
ePriest's ideal is to be A Resource for Catholic Priests, dedicated to loving Christ, building the Church, and serving people.

Ryan Foley, Executive Director
Fr. John Bartunek, LC, STL, Homily Packs author
Fr. John Pietropaoli, LC, Homily Packs author
ePriest is operated by a team of lay professionals and is supported by a network of diocesan priests who provide ongoing evaluation and input.

VISION
The National Association for Lay Ministry promotes the fruitful collaboration of ordained and lay ministers, continuing “the saving mission of Christ for the World” (Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord, Introduction).
MISSION
The National Association for Lay Ministry is a collaborative organization of lay, religious and ordained ministers that empowers, advocates for, and develops lay pastoral leadership and promotes the growth of lay pastoral ministry in the Catholic Church.

A Voice for the Faithful Catholic Laity

Collaboration Between Clergy & Laity
Over 50 years ago, Vatican II articulated the role of the laity in the Catholic Church in a document entitled Lumen Gentium. All members of the Church, not just the clergy, “contribute toward the renewal and building up of the Church.” Lumen Gentium says pastors should “willingly employ” the “prudent advice” of the lay faithful, and “confidently assign duties to them” in service to the Church. With the help of the laity, “pastors can more clearly and more incisively come to decisions regarding both spiritual and temporal matters.“

The Catholic University of America is uniquely situated to be a place where laity and clergy can come together in a spirit of mutual respect and charity to address the most challenging issues of our times. We believe, in the words of Lumen Gentium, that by drawing on the contributions of all its members, “the entire Church . . . may more effectively fulfill its mission for the life of the world.”