Empowerment for ministry - John M Huels

Empowerment for Ministry is a must-have reference book that provides a comprehensive treatment of diocesan faculties for priests, deacons, and lay ministers. It develops a coherent theory of the juridical nature and the delegation of faculties; identifies and organizes the pertinent rules of canon law and the canonical tradition on the grant, supply, use, and cessation of diocesan faculties; and offers model faculties and commentaries on them for clergy, lay ministers, and chancery officials.Part I, Canonical Theory and Rules, presents a comprehensive treatment of diocesan faculties and all the canonical rules applicable to them. Part II, Model Faculties and Commentaries, offers lists of faculties and commentaries on them.Audience:-diocesan leadership and those who advise them in the preparation and updating of diocesan faculties-canonists and students of canon law-priests, deacons, and lay ministers who have faculties by law and/or delegation-those preparing for ecclesial ministries-seminarians, deacon candidates, and lay ministers in formation