For OCIA team members, pastors, vicars, deacons, Directors of Evangelization, Directors of Worship, pastoral musicians, and anyone else involved in helping others become Catholic.
Join fellow adult initiation ministers for a day with Fr. Paul Turner – theologian, pastor, and author – focused on the Christian initiation of adults! We’ll explore the new OCIA and the new National Statutes on the Catechumenate, their implications for how we accompany those seeking to become Catholics, and special topics of interest to initiation ministers.
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Paul Turner is pastor of Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Kansas City, Missouri and director of the Office of Divine Worship for the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St Joseph. He holds a doctorate in sacred theology from Sant’ Anselmo in Rome. He is a consultor for the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
His publications include Ars Celebrandi: Celebrating and Concelebrating Mass (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2021), Words Without Alloy: A Biography of the Lectionary for Mass (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2022), and Present for God’s Call: An Overview of the Rites of Institution and Ordination (Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 2022), and dozens of other titles. He wrote the introduction, emendations and annotations for the reprint of The Liturgical Year by Adrien Nocent (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2013).
He is a former president of the North American Academy of Liturgy, a member of Societas Liturgica, and the Catholic Academy of Liturgy. He is the recipient of the Jubilate Deo Award from the National Association of Pastoral Musicians and the Frederick McManus Award from the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions. He serves as a facilitator for the International Commission on English in the Liturgy.
As pastor of diverse parishes, he spent many years ministering in a state prison, serving a hispanic and multi-ethnic community, and providing assistance to the homeless. He plays harpsichord, piano and organ. He enjoys the Kansas City Symphony and the Kansas City Royals.
He answers questions about the liturgy daily on his blog.
If your Parish is interested in reserving the Our Lady of Fatima pilgrimage statue, contact Denise Austing dausting@catholicaoc.org
