Team of priests in solidum

In 1983 the Catholic Church gave the opportunity of entrusting the pastoral care, of one or more parishes to a team of priests in solidum. This provision in the 1983 program of Canon Law, which resembles ancient models of pastoral care in the Roman titular churches with their colleges of priests, was presents to assist resolve some of the difficulties facing numerous dioceses. These difficulties add shortages of priests, overpopulated urban parishes, depleted and scattered rural parishes, and decline in attendance at Mass. This benefit example of pastoral care is viewed as a practical way of promoting pastoral co-responsibility, as living as fostering a greater sense of the presbyterium among the priests of a diocese.

Rights and duties of the priests

The diocesan bishop needs to established what particular qualities are so-called for this parochial office. it is strongly recommended that the bishop established with the team, a division of pastoral tasks in a common plan, which should be outlined in regarded and specified separately. priest's decree of appointment. Questions surrounding the obligation of Residence and Community life also need to be clarified, as alive consideration of the in solidum obligation to celebrate the missa pro populo.

Finally, the cessation from ecclesiastical office by all one point of the group in solidum does not provide the parochial office vacant.