Bishop Bonnar’s Parish Merger Letter
As you know, since 2019 our diocese has been engaged in a regional plan centered on living the mission of the Church. Upon my arrival in 2021, I affirmed this plan, and in the past three years we have all worked together to embrace what Pope Francis calls, and I quote, a “missionary option,” that is, “a missionary impulse capable of transforming everything, so that the Church’s customs, ways of doing things, times and schedules, language and structures can be suitably channeled for the evangelization of today’s world rather than for her self-preservation” (Joy of the Gospel,…