Your Parish Needs an AI Policy. Here Is Why, and How to Write One
Your parish probably already has AI in its communications work. You may not know about all of it.
Formation · a reader pathway
For The Parish Secretary
The essays and templates most useful to this role, gathered across the four practices.
Templates and worksheets
How to Submit Something for Parish Communications
A single-page template the curator customizes for her parish and hands to each originator (SVP lead, youth minister, music director, catechist, and so on). Pinned above the originator's desk. Referred to every time she has something to submit.
Liturgical Communications Calendar
The flagship Pillar 2 download. A printable, fillable planning tool that treats the liturgical year as the primary organizing principle for parish communications.
Ordinary Time Is Not Nothing: A Short Reflection for the Parish Secretary
For whoever has been carrying the weekly newsletter for years, often alone, and is tired.
Parish AI Use Policy
A one-page policy template that helps a parish articulate and document its approach to AI in communications. Adapted by the parish from the template; signed by priest, parish secretary, and a PPC member; reviewed annually.
Parish Communications Audit
A structured worksheet for producing an honest, non-judgmental view of a parish's actual communications output over a specific period. Usually reveals that the output is structurally flat across the liturgical year.
Parish Editorial Vetting Checklist
This document contains three parts:
Safe Environment Communications Protocol
A specific interface document between parish safe environment and parish communications. Not a safe environment policy: the parish safe environment officer has that, following diocesan and bishops' conference guidance. This template closes the gap between…
Syndicate-Once Policy
A one-page policy template that deaneries, dioceses, or clusters of parishes can adopt (and adapt) to eliminate duplicate content across organizational levels. Names where each content type originates, where it syndicates to, and who owns each.
The Parish Communications Starter Pack: A Cover Note
This pack contains four documents. Together, they are enough to start a parish communications system from something like zero.
Three-Seasons Pacing Guide
A reference document for project sponsors, agencies, and priests responsible for the pace of a parish change. Read at the start of a project and reread at the start of each of the three seasons. Not a one-time read; a working companion.
When Silence Serves: A Reflection Guide for Difficult Decisions
For the priest, parish secretary, or curator facing a communications decision they are not sure about.