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Welcome to the web site of NOCERCC, the National Organization for Continuing Education of Roman Catholic Clergy.
We thank you for visiting our site!
Our site offers information about NOCERCC, membership, products and services, and registration information about our annual convention. If you are already a member, you have access to a section for members only.
If you are not yet a member of NOCERCC and would like information about different membership types and services, please click here to contact our national office.
Save the Dates!
Thirty-Eighth Annual
NOCERCC National Convention
February 28- March 3, 2011
Loews New Orleans Hotel
New Orleans, Louisiana
To pre-register for our 2011 Convention or to receive an exhibitor's packet, please click here to email the national office or call us at 312-781-9450, ext. 216.
Special Attention...
Requiescant in pace
His Eminence Basil Myron Schott, OFM
Metropolitan Archbishop, Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh
Episcopal Contact for NOCERCC, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Rev. Elwyn Slider Steuernol
Director, Continuing Education for Clergy, Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon
Administrator, St. Agatha Church, Portland, Oregon
Member, NOCERCC Board of Directors, 1998 to 2007
Member, NOCERCC Governing Council, 2007 to 2008
Full obituaries
Encouraging Emerging Models Parish Survey Completion
In February 2010, the Emerging Models of Pastoral Leadership Project launched a nationwide, comprehensive survey of Catholic parish ministry and organization. NOCERCC has supported the project since it began in 2003.
Mailed to 3,500 randomly selected U.S. parishes, the survey is the most comprehensive investigation of its kind in 30 years and will offer a much-needed snapshot of the new forms and structures for ministry that are growing from the ground up.
The survey deadline has been indefinitely extended, so if your parish received the survey, the project’s leaders would be very grateful if you could do whatever you can to support getting the survey completed and submitted. The survey is available electronically as well.
The results of the survey will offer all those working in or concerned about parish ministry invaluable insights. Every survey-receiving community’s participation will make a difference. And the project is eager to have surveys returned.
If you have any questions, contact Trish Sullivan Vanni, Project Director of The Emerging Models of Pastoral Leadership project at tvanni@nalm.org. Thank you!
NOCERCC's Cultivating Unity program in National Catholic Reporter
Tom Gallagher describes the need for strong relationships between bishops and priests in a May 6, 2009 article titled "Mission Management: Improving the bishop-priest relationship." This article expresses the same concerns addressed through NOCERCC's Cultivating Unity program.
Click here to view the article
Click here for more information on Cultivating Unity
EnVisionChurch
EnVisionChurch is a new online resource concerned with liturgy, spirituality, and sacred art and architecture. Sponsored by the GeorgetownCenter for Liturgy in Washington, DC, the site creates a learning and networking forum for anyone interested in construction, renovation, and/or design of worship spaces; creation of artwork; enhancing of spaces for the liturgical seasons and other occasions; celebration of liturgical rites; interrelationship between art, architecture, liturgy and spirituality; and much more.
Membership is free and registering takes less than one minute. Visit www.envisionchurch.org.
NOCERCC and The Basic Plan for Ongoing Formation of Priests
In June 2000 the U.S. Catholic bishops unanimously approved The Basic Plan for the Ongoing Formation of Priests and asked NOCERCC to "carry the principles outlined here forward to implementation." Click here for The Basic Plan.
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* archives of past newsletters
* updated resources in our members only section
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