Only one Pastor assignment, as such. In the other reassignments of a current pastor, he becomes an Administrator. (Perhaps Good Shepherd Sunday will become Proactive Administrator Sunday.)
Among the Associate Pastor assignments,
Reverend Mark Brandl, newly ordained, to associate pastor of St. Alphonsus Parish, Greendale, effective June 16, 2009.
Seven priests retire effective June 30, 2009. Father Leonard Van Vlaenderen retires effective July 1, 2009.
P.S. Priests to be ordained are profiled in the Milwaukee Catholic Herald. For example, in the April 30, 2009 issue, Mark Brandl can say, 'I understand what you're going through': Looking forward to priesthood instead of retirement, by Maryangela Layman Roman.
Update: In a comment to a post at Dad29, Dave Pawlak explains that "until we have an Archbishop, all priests appointed are administrators and not pastors...". What appears to be naming a Pastor then presumably indicates he remains pastor of a merged parish that included his current assignment.
Not quite. Priests are being transferred from one parish to another, but they cannot be canonical pastors until the new Archbishop makes them so.
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting to see which parishes are getting associate pastors and which are not. St. Mary's in Hales Corners, one of the largest parishes in the archdiocese, is going down to one priest. Perhaps Fr. Schramm can't find anyone compatible with him?
Dave (under my wife's ID)