Msgr Moroney's Blog: January Rector's Conference: Real Numbers

05 February 2015

January Rector's Conference: Real Numbers

Here's my January 2015 Rector's Conference on Priests and People in New England and Beyond. It tries to answer two questions: Is there a Priest Shortage? and Is there a People shortage? This is part of a four part series on evangelization and parish structures in the northeastern part of the United States.

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Monsignor James P. Moroney, a priest of the Diocese of Worcester for forty four years, is Pastor of Saint Cecilia Parish in Leominster. He served for many years as Executive Director of the USCCB Secretariat for Divine Worship in Washington D.C., as Rector of Saint John's Seminary in Boston, and as Pastor of Mary Queen of the Rosary Parish in Spencer and as Rector of Saint Paul's Cathedral in Worcester. Pope Saint John Paul II and Pope Benedict both appointed him as a Consultor to the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in Rome and as Executive Director of the Vox Clara Committee. He is author of THE MASS EXPLAINED (Catholic Book Publishing) which is being published in its third edition this Spring.