Best Practices for Shared Parishes

Build unity. Transform your parish.

Across the country, parishes are becoming home to an ever-richer tapestry of cultures, languages, and traditions. This beautiful reality also brings the challenge, and the opportunity, of uniting diverse communities as one Body in Christ.

Best Practices for Shared Parishes: So That They May All Be One, from the USCCB Committee on Cultural Diversity in the Church, is a practical, field-tested guide for pastors and parish leaders to foster unity while honoring the richness of diversity.

Drawing on the experience of 20 pastors who have successfully led culturally diverse parishes, this resource offers:

• Proven strategies for integration and inclusion
• Practical tools to assess and address ministerial challenges
• Intercultural skills to build connections in daily parish life
• Pastoral planning guidance rooted in stewardship and missionary discipleship

With more than 6,000 shared parishes nationwide, this timely guide will help you strengthen community life and ensure every parishioner feels at home in the family of God.