Church Personnel: includes the following categories:
- All priests, permanent deacons and transitional deacons of the diocese;
- All religious priests, deacons, and brothers working in parishes and other
institutions of the diocese;
- All those non-ordained persons to whom a participation in the exercise of
the pastoral care of a parish is entrusted according to Canon 517, Section
2, of the Code of Canon Law;
- All clerics of other jurisdictions assigned for work of the diocese;
- All women religious working in parishes and other institutions of the diocese;
- All personnel of Catholic schools of the diocese (administration, faculty,
and support staff);
- All religious education directors and teachers in the parishes and schools
of the diocese;
- All youth ministers in the parishes, schools and institutions of the diocese;
- All personnel of diocesan campus ministry programs;
- All paid personnel in the offices of the diocese; in the parishes of the
diocese; in the schools of the diocese; and the Society for the Propagation
of the Faith for the Diocese of St. Cloud;
- All who volunteer for work on a significant scale in the offices and institutions
noted in the previous paragraph, and with persons of special concerns as stated
in the policy regarding vulnerable persons; and
- Such other personnel as designated or assigned by the bishop of the diocese.