PCC Outline

ThePCC was set up after a series of meetings in 2006 generated by the Liverpool Archdiocesan initiative, ‘Leaving Safe Harbours’. This initiative reflected the hard truth that there are not enough priests to cover all the parishes in the Archdiocese (and beyond), that the problem will only get worse as current parish priests age and that the laity need to be more involved in assisting priests, taking the burden of some parish administration off them. It anticipates a future where parishes in a Deanery (Pastoral Area) will be clustered, sharing priests or a team of priests. The day to day running of the parish will then be in the hands of aPCC. Since 2006, a number of different models have been / are being tried across the Archdiocese. It is perhaps fair to say that, in Chorley Deanery, there have been no major upheavals as yet though some parishes are now sharing priests and the future remains unclear.