Priest as Teacher II: Understanding Priests’ Communicative Misbehaviors

Horan, Sean M.; Raposo, Peter C. J.; Carton, Shannon T.

doi:10.1080/01463373.2013.822902

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“…EOs currently receive little to no communication training during initial formation, despite the need for improvement in these areas (Carrell, 2009; Horan & Raposo, 2015; Horan et al, 2014; Sigler, 2017). Effective training is needs-centered (Beebe, Mottet, & Roach, 2013), and the Church acknowledges new pastors’ needs for training in finance, management, and conflict resolution (USCCB, 2001).…”

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“…For instance, priests' burnout and job dissatisfaction are related to parishioner nonresponsiveness during Mass (Horan & Raposo, 2013). Likewise, some priests use authoritarian leadership because they are losing credibility (Knott, 2011), yet priests who communicate disrespectfully or in a hurtful manner distract or demotivate parishioners from their faith/worship (Horan, Raposo, & Carton, 2014). The implications of these effects are far-reaching; despite recent declines, the Catholic Church still has over a billion lay members (CARA, 2019) and is the world's oldest organization (Fichter, 1961).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Superior-subordinate VA/ARG relationships among EOs. Based on CROS research (Boren & Veksler, 2015;Veksler & Boren, 2017) and investigations of communication in the Church (e.g., Dixon, 2004;Hoffman, 2002;Horan et al, 2014;Lamoureux, 1994;Sigler, 2017), we hypothesized that priests and sisters with aggressive superiors would internalize the stress caused by the superiors and Church structures, resulting in decreased satisfaction, motivation, and commitment, and lower perceptions of superior credibility. As predicted, superior VA was associated with lower job motivation, organizational commitment, and perceptions of superior credibility.…”

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“…At a macro level, Church leadership tends to not tolerate criticism that threatens its control (Dixon, 2004; Lamoureux, 1994). In addition, EOs’ spiritual labor (McGuire, 2010) likely fosters CROS, as EOs may fear that talking about stressors would violate expectations of appropriate behavior (Horan et al, 2014; Lamoureux, 1994; McNamee, 2011). On a micro level, the leader–member context in which EOs could discuss stressors is not favorable when EOs have superiors who are high in VA and low in ARG.…”

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Superior–Subordinate Aggressive Communication Among Catholic Priests and Sisters in the United States

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The Roman Catholic Church is one of the world’s largest and oldest organizations, yet communication among its members serving in ecclesiastical occupations (e.g., priests) remains relatively unexplored. The present study addresses this paucity of research by examining the relationship between 145 U.S. priests’ and sisters’ perceptions of their religious superiors’ aggressive communication and perceptions of the superiors’ credibility, as well as their own experiences of job and vocational satisfaction, motivation, and organizational commitment. Results indicated that superior verbal aggressiveness was associated with priests’ and sisters’ job motivation, organizational commitment, and perceptions of superior credibility, whereas superior argumentativeness only predicted perceptions of superior competence. The pattern of findings also suggests that superior aggressive communication functions differently across the ecclesiastical occupations studied, with diocesan priests appearing to be most influenced by their superiors’ aggressive communication and sisters seemingly the least influenced. Implications for management and organizational communication research and the Catholic Church are discussed.

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Section: Conference Of Catholic Bishops [Usccb] 2001)mentioning

confidence: 99%