The Connection of the Local Parish to the National and Universal Church

Bishop Murphy in his weekly Montana Catholic Register “Reflections” column explains the connection of the local parish community to the national and universal church in the post Vatican II era. He shares the following perspective, “No local parish community is able to have an identity exclusively on its own. It must have a relationship to the neighboring parishes and to a diocese which in turn relates to the national and international presence of the Church in which we live.”