August 19, 2011

Bishop Coyne posts podcast about multicultural parishes

Bishop Coyne PodcastThe latest podcast of Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, auxiliary bishop and vicar general, is the first of his three-part conversation with Father Robert Murray, pastor of St. James and St. John the Baptist parishes in Haverhill, Mass., in the Boston Archdiocese, about pastoring multicultural parishes.

In the podcast, Father Murray describes his ministry experience, including time he spent in Guatemala and Peru.

Father Murray and Bishop Coyne also discuss how knowledge of the languages of multicultural parishioners is important, but not enough. To be a good pastor, a priest must also understand and live, as best as possible, the culture of his parishioners.

Links to this podcast as well as Bishop Coyne’s previous podcasts can be found at www.archindy.org/auxiliary. The podcasts can also be downloaded through iTunes. †

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