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Show moreThis qualitative research study was designed to examine eight Roman Catholic parishes to determine both from a pastor’s and a parishioner’s viewpoint what makes a parish vibrant. The study was able to formulate, test and modify a conceptual model for a vibrant parish. The model demonstrates how the pastoral leadership style interacts with the parish organizational factors to influence parish vibrancy. However, certain parish characteristics can modify parish vibrancy. Parish vibrancy was determined to be a parish where there is a sense of community, in which parishioners give freely of their time, talents and treasure, experience spiritual growth, reach out and care for each other and the neighboring community and share a common vision with their fellow parishioners.
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Show moreThe number of Catholic priests available to lead and administer Catholic parishes is declining. The Roman Catholic Church is facing a leadership crises. To help understand the nature of pastoral leadership, this study was designed to examine the impact of pastoral leadership on parishioner satisfaction and parishoner support in 135 Catholic parishes in the Cleveland Diocese. Parishoner satisfaction was assessed from 52,786 Vibrant Parish Life surveys collected from these parishes. Parishioner support was defined as mult-year trends in the parishes' financial and sacramental data. Pastoral leadership was measured through the frequency use of emotional intelligence competencies by pastors from 32 of these parishes. The results showed that five variables emerged constituting parishoner satisfactions: outreach, sense of community, sacramental, faith formation and stewardship. Emotional intelligence competencies of thepastor significantly predicted parish vibrancy as measured by parishioner satisfaction. It did not predict parish vibrancy as measured by parishoner support. The hypothesized moderating effects concerning the presence of a parish school and size of the parish were found not to alter the impact of the pastor's leadership on parishoner satisfaction.
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