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July 31, 2010

Bishop Morlino's Directives for Parishes in the Diocese of Madison

After a determination process that has lasted years and involved parishes, priests, commissions, and staff, Bishop Morlino issued his Directives for all of the parishes in the Diocese of Madison in October 2007. These Directives set the ‘direction’ for each cluster of parishes as the number of priests decline and the distribution of priests change in the Diocese. You can read more history about these Directives on the Guided by the Spirit pages of this site (click here).

Cluster implementation committees and a diocesan Implementation Commission have been formed to address the implementation of these directives. Their work can be seen on the Cluster Implementation Plan page (click here).

There are two types of directives:

General Directives - These directives apply to all parishes of the Diocese of Madison, in every cluster. They are listed below.

Cluster Directives - These directives apply to a specific cluster and all the parishes that belong to that cluster. They are listed both by parish and by cluster below.

CLUSTER Directives By Parish

CLUSTER Directives By Cluster

GENERAL Directives

GENERAL DIRECTIVES FOR ALL CLUSTERS AND PARISHES

1. Pray and do all you can to increase vocations to ordained, consecrated life, and lay ministry

2. All parishes in the cluster support the Catholic schools within the cluster

3. Create a Cluster Implementation Team to engage the staffs and pastoral councils in developing an implementation plan and provide regular updates to the parishes and to the Diocese

4. Support the implementation of ParishSOFT in all parishes of the Diocese

5. Support the implementation of Quickbooks in all parishes of the Diocese

6. Support the implementation of Churchwerks School Information System in all schools of the Diocese

7. All parishes, those with and those without schools, will actively participate in a diocesan wide comprehensive school study to promote and increase our diocesan commitment to Catholic education as outlined in the USCCB publication “Renewing Our Commitment to Catholic Elementary and Secondary Schools in the Third Millennium”

Diocese of Madison
Bishop O'Connor Catholic Pastoral Center
702 South High Point Road, P.O. Box 44983, Madison, WI 53719
Phone: 608-821-3000; Fax: 608-821-4552