Guidelines for Receiving Pastoral Ministers in the USA

Glossary

Adjustment of Status. Section 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) permits a person who is currently residing in the United States and is in a valid nonimmigrant status and who oth erwise qualifies for lawful permanent residency to apply for such status while physically present in the United States. Arrival/Departure Record. The arrival/depar ture record, Form I-94, is stapled to the passport of all those who are inspected and who are admit ted into the United States on nonimmigrant visas at land border ports or, if the Customs and Border Protections (CBP) computers are down, at the other ports of entry. The arrival/departure record is anno tated by a Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) inspector with the type of visa classification held by the nonimmigrant and the authorized period of stay in the United States. CBP has eliminated the paper form of the I-94 at all other ports of entry. International non-immigration travelers must go to www.cbp.gov after arrival in the United States to print out the I-94 Arrival/Departure record. Celebret. A canonical document issued to priests each year by their diocesan or eparchial bishop or major superior, or their delegates, to indicate that the priest is ordained and is in good standing in the Church. A celebret is used by a priest when trav eling so that other priests will permit him to cele brate Mass in their churches. (CIC c. 903; CCEO c. 703 §1) Cleric. A bishop, priest, or deacon. (CIC cc. 207 §1 and 1009 §1; CCEO c. 325) Consular processing. The term given to the process through which a person residing abroad obtains a visa at a US consulate. Culture. Values, norms, and traditions that affect how individuals of a particular group perceive, think, interact, behave, and make judgments about their world.

Deacon. A third degree of the hierarchy of the Sacrament of Holy Orders, after the bishop and priest. The deacon is ordained not to priesthood but for ministry and service. Deacons are ordained to assist the bishop and priests in the celebration of the divine mysteries, above all the Eucharist, in the distribution of Holy Communion, in assisting at or blessing marriages, in the proclamation of the Gospel and preaching, in presiding over funerals, and in dedicating themselves to the various minis tries of charity. While the Churches of the East have always had a functioning order of deacons, in the West the permanent diaconate was reestablished by the Second Vatican Council. Delict. An external violation of a penal law or penal precept of the Church. Dimissorial Letter. A canonical document sent by the diocesan or eparchial bishop or major superior of a candidate for ordination that grants permission to another bishop to ordain him and attests that he is a proper candidate for ordination. (CIC cc. 1015, 1019-1020; CCEO cc. 747, 472, 537 §1, 751). Diocesan Bishop. A bishop to whom is entrusted a diocese for him to shepherd and for which he “has all ordinary, proper, and immediate power which is required for the exercise of his pastoral function” (CIC c. 381 §1). Diocesan Priest. A priest who is incardinated into a diocese rather than into an institute of consecrated life or society of apostolic life. Diocese. A portion of the People of God entrusted to the pastoral care of a diocesan bishop (CIC c. 369). It is equivalent to an eparchy in the Eastern Catholic Churches sui iuris . Employment-Based Visa. One of the primary ways under which a person can be sponsored for lawful permanent residency in the United States. All spe cial immigrant religious workers are sponsored on employment-based visas.

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