Worship Times

The National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) and the National Conference of Catechetical Leadership (NCCL) are discussing how the two organizations might use their resources and those of their members to better serve the catechetical ministry in the United States. Neither group likes the current arrangement they have with each other and they are looking for a new way of doing things. A dialogue committee made up of six members from each organization developed two drafts of possible models for the future of the organizations.

Model 1 proposes that the NCCL and the Religious Education Division of the NCEA join to form a new organization. The remaining NCEA divisions would restructure to focus exclusively on Catholic schooling, leaving the new organization to deal with parish-based catechesis and evangelization. One of the benefits of this model is that it would bring clarity of focus to both organizations. 

Model 2 proposes that at least two departments of the NCEA would be redesigned: the Department of Religious Education and the Chief Administrators of Catholic Education. The NCCL would cease to exist. The new, redesigned NCEA departments would focus on 1) catechetical leadership and 2) Catholic school diocesan leadership. One of the benefits of this model is that it presents a unified voice and effort for catechesis in the United States.

Do you know where your magazine is?

If you subscribe to Liturgy Planner magazine and you haven’t seen it for a while, contact David Haney. Haney owns Liturgy House Publications (publishers of the magazine), and he used to own a computer that had some of his subscriber information. However, someone stole the computer and, along with it, the names and addresses of about 150 customers. He’s trying to locate all the missing information and reestablish contact with subscribers.

Funerals in Spanish

Spanish-speaking Catholics in the United States may soon be able to celebrate funerals for their departed loved ones with newly approved revised texts. By a vote of 234 to 0, the U.S. Catholic bishops approved the use of readings drawn from the Mexican lectionary to replace the translations currently in use. 

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