1.   These are fixed terms and the elector has the chance to vote for members of councils at district and county levels and sometimes at parish level as well.

2.   Austin Bishop John McCarthy is moving social service ministry from the more traditional diocesan-driven programs to the parish level.

3.   That happened on the parish level but not, to a large extent, within the church hierarchy.

4.   The exiled president has the support of many priests at the parish level, and of lay people involved in community and social programs.

5.   There are also vocation-promotions programs at the parish level that include pastors, religion teachers and lay ministers.

6.   They said they admired Pope John Paul II, but wanted a bigger role in decision-making at the parish level.

7.   Church leaders said the agreement could pave the way for more cooperation at the parish level between the churches.

8.   For example, on the parish level, the church can now carry out such services as helping single mothers, alcoholics and the disabled.

9.   Yet he will bequeath to his successor a church that, while streamlined at the top, is struggling at the parish level.