Empowerment for Ministry: A Complete Manual on Diocesan Faculties for Priests, Deacons, and Lay Ministers »

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.

About the Author:
John Huels, J.C.D., who holds a doctorate in canon law from the Catholic University of America in Washington, is professor of canon law at St. Paul University, Ottawa, Canada. Huels is the author of over 100 articles and nine books. He is a member of the Canon Law Society of America, the Canadian Canon Law Society, the Canon Law Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and the North American Academy of Liturgy.

Director Diaconate Office, Archdiocese of Louisville - Deacon Bob Hall

Empowerment for Ministry is an essential text for diocesan diaconal formation, and with it Huels fills a longstanding gap on the bookshelf. Written in plain, clear, concise, precise, and understandable language, it should become a standard textbook in the instruction of diocesan faculties to deacon candidates and in continuing education programs. I enthusiastically recommend it as an addition to every deacon's personal reference library, right alongside Huel's classic, The Pastoral Companion.

Part I THEORY AND RULES

Introduction to Part I

Chapter One The Fundamentals of Faculties

1. Purposes of faculties
2. Sources of faculties
3. Nature of faculties
4. Categories of faculties

Chapter Two The Grant, Supply and Revocation of Faculties

1. The act of granting faculties
2. Rules for granting diocesan faculties
3. Faculty supplied by law
4. Revoking diocesan faculties

Chapter Three The Use, Delegation and Cessation of Faculties

1. Rules for the use of faculties
2. Rules for the delegation and subdelegation of faculties
3. Rules for the cessation of faculties

Part II MODEL FACULTIES AND COMMENTARIES

Introduction to Part II

Chapter Four Priests

1. Eucharist
2. Reconciliation
3. Ecumenism
4. Select faculties granted by law
5. Faculties by law in danger of death

Chapter Five Pastors, Parochial Vicars, Rectors of Churches and Chaplains

Introduction

1. The catechumenate and baptism
2. Reception into full communion
3. Confirmation
4. Eucharist
5. Reconciliation
6. Anointing of the Sick
7. Marriage
8. Other acts of divine worship
9. Exceptional faculties
10. Additional faculties for parochial vicars and chaplains

Chapter Six Deacons

1. Faculties granted at ordination
2. Faculties for use in danger of death
3. Faculties granted by the bishop
4. Faculties for pastoral administrators granted by the bishop
5. Mandates for pastoral administrator granted by priest supervisor

Chapter Seven

1. Ministry of the Word
2. The catechumenate and baptism
3. Eucharist
4. Marriage
5. Other acts of divine worship
6. Select faculties in danger of death
7. Mandates granted by the priest supervisor

Chapter Eight Offices of the Diocesan Curia

1. Tribunal administration
2. Financial administration
3. Institutes of consecrated life and societies of apostolic life
4. Regulation of the sanctifying function
5. Ecumenism
6. Special marriage cases
7. Additional faculties

Appendices

I Authorizations in Canon Law
II. Sample Documents for Granting Faculties
III. Select Bibliography
IV. Glossary

Indices

I. Index of Canons Cited
II Index of Faculties