Guidelines for Receiving Pastoral Ministers in the United States

Guidelines for Receiving Pastoral Ministers in the United States, Third Edition

was developed as a resource by the

Committees on: Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations; Cultural Diversity in the Church; the Protection

of Children and Young People; and Canonical Affairs and Church Governance of the United States

Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). It was approved by the committee chairmen, Bishop Michael

F. Burbidge, Bishop R. Daniel Conlon, Bishop Daniel E. Flores, and Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, JCD,

and authorized for publication by the Administrative Committee at its September 2014 meeting. It has been

directed for publication by the undersigned.

Msgr. Ronny Jenkins

General Secretary, USCCB

Excerpts from the

Code of Canon Law: Latin-English Edition, New English Translation

Canon Law Society of America, Washington, DC, are reprinted with permission.

Excerpt(s) from the

Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches: Latin-English Edition, New English Translation

rights reserved.

Excerpts from Pope John Paul II’s April 23, 2002 Address, Encyclical Letter

Redemptoris Missio

, Post-

Synodal Apostolic Exhortation

Ecclesia in America

, Encyclical Letter

Fides et Ratio

Encyclical Letter

Redemptoris Missio

, and excerpts from Pope Francis’s Apostolic Exhortation

Evangelii Gaudium

are taken

Excerpt(s) from the Second Vatican Council’s

Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World

(Gaudium et Spes)

Excerpt from the Congregation of Catholic Education’s

Guidelines for the Use of Psychology in the Admission

and Formation of Candidates for the Priesthood