Diocese of Joliet Joins Thirty Other U.S. dioceses Participating in Clergy Leadership Program

The Catholic Leadership Institute has announced that its new partnership with the Diocese of Joliet, Illinois means that thirty U.S. dioceses have now partnered with the institute in its clergy leadership development program. In 2006 the Catholic Leadership Institute (CLI) introduced nationally its Good Leaders, Good Shepherds program after a 2003-2005 pilot effort in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. According to a February CLI statement, the program uses Jesus Christ as the “ultimate shepherd” in a curriculum designed to help clergy overcome contemporary challenges such as a diminishing number of clergy and the “complex circumstances” of priestly ministry.