Forming a Champion: A Short Guide for the Priest
For use in the days before you commission a Communications Champion in your parish. Read slowly, perhaps more than once.
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.
Invitation, Not Buy-In: A Short Guide for Those Proposing Change
For agency leads, diocesan staff, priests, PPC chairs, and consultants entering parish work. Read before proposing any change.
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.
Parish Communications Champion: Commissioned Role
This document contains two parts:
Liturgical Communications Calendar
The flagship Pillar 2 download. A printable, fillable planning tool that treats the liturgical year as the primary organising principle for parish communications.
A Proposal for Parish Change
The artefact that converts a parish change idea into a structured proposal. It is designed to be filled in collaboratively, after the "What Already Works" audit (W3) has been completed, and before any change conversation becomes public.
How to Submit Something for Parish Communications
A single-page template the curator customises 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.
Syndicate-Once Policy
A one-page policy template that deaneries, dioceses, or clusters of parishes can adopt (and adapt) to eliminate duplicate content across organisational levels. Names where each content type originates, where it syndicates to, and who owns each.
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.
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.
Safeguarding-Aware Communications Protocol
A specific interface document between parish safeguarding and parish communications. Not a safeguarding policy: the parish safeguarding officer has that, following diocesan and bishops' conference guidance. This template closes the gap between…
Parish Ministries Audit
A structured worksheet for making the parish's whole communications ecosystem visible in one view. Used by the priest or PPC chair, usually alone or with the parish secretary, in a dedicated sitting of ninety minutes to two hours.
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.
What Already Works: An Audit Before Change
The honouring-before-proposing exercise. A structured worksheet that forces the discipline of understanding what is currently good, and naming it specifically, before any change is proposed.
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.