“As the parish goes, so goes the faith of the people.”
from Vibrant Parish Life http://web.archive.org/web/20020826224835/http://www.dioceseofcleveland.org/vibrantparishlife/vpl_initiative.html, a pastoral letter published in 2001.
Anthony Michael Pilla is a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. He served as auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland from 1979 to 1980 and Bishop of Cleveland from 1980 to 2006. Wikipedia
“As the parish goes, so goes the faith of the people.”
from Vibrant Parish Life http://web.archive.org/web/20020826224835/http://www.dioceseofcleveland.org/vibrantparishlife/vpl_initiative.html, a pastoral letter published in 2001.