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Pastoral Associate

The Pastoral Associate is responsible for guiding the parish community into an active and ongoing personal relationship with Jesus. Embracing the New Evangelization and the parish vision of making missionary disciples, in helping others come into a more intimate understanding of the Catholic faith which will grow and be lived out their entire life - wherever they are on their faith journey (active members, inactive, or unchurched).

Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne attends a German Synodal Way assembly on March 9, 2023.

Four German Bishops Resist Push to Install Permanent ‘Synodal Council’

Given the Vatican’s repeated interventions against the German process, the bishops said they would instead look to the Synod of Bishops in Rome. Meanwhile, on Monday, German diocesan bishops approved the statutes for a synodal committee; and there are reports that the synodal committee will meet again in June.