Seeing your pastorates in the diocese console

A diocese draws its pastorate map from the top down. The diocese console shows that map — your groupings, named with your diocese's own word — alongside the aggregate numbers, so the chancery sees the whole picture without ever touching a parish's records.

The Pastorates page

Sign in to the diocese console and open Pastorates. Each grouping is a card showing its name, your diocese's word for it (Pastorate, Family of Parishes, Cluster — whatever you set), the pastor, and the member parishes. A parish that has been suspended is shown muted with its status, so the map always matches reality.

The page's heading uses the word most of your groupings use; if your diocese mixes terms, the majority word wins, and each card still shows its own.

Roll-ups by grouping

The Statistics and Safe Environments views group their totals by pastorate as well as by parish. A grouping's subtotal is simply the sum of its member parishes, and the grouping subtotals plus any standalone parishes always add up to the diocese total — the numbers reconcile, so nothing looks off in a report.

What the diocese never sees

This is a governance view: aggregate and identity only. It shows:

• parish and grouping names, and the pastor's name;
• counts and percentages — sacraments, Safe Environment readiness, head-counts.

It never shows a parishioner, a register, or any sacramental record. The diocese app holds no parish data; it reads names and totals over the wire and never queries a parish's book.

The one exception, and how it is watched

Safe Environment is the single place where the diocese sees names, and it is better read here than discovered from the software.

The chancery's safe-environment office — and only that office, alongside a diocese administrator — can open a member parish's roster from the Safe Environments view. For each person who has a Safe Environment profile it shows five things: their name, their profile type, their overall status, whether a verification is pending, and their earliest expiry date. That is the whole list. No requirement detail, no documents, no contact information, no date of birth, nothing else. No other diocesan office can reach it — worship, clergy and finance have no access to this view at all.

It exists so the safe-environment office can see who stands where without telephoning every parish. And it is not silent: every pull writes a record on both sides, in the same breath as the read. The diocese's own record names the official who looked, which parish, and how many people came back. Your parish's audit trail gets its own row at the same moment, so you can always see exactly when the chancery looked and how much left the building. One honest detail: your parish's row records *that* the diocese pulled, not *which* official did — the name is kept on the diocese's side of the ledger.

Everything else on this page still holds. Statistics, sacrament counts and head-counts stay aggregate-only, and the diocese still never reads a parish's registers or its directory.

The Safe Environments view

What used to be a single SE Policy tab is now Safe Environments, holding three views: a Dashboard of readiness across the diocese, SE Policy for the diocesan requirements themselves, and SE Performance. The Dashboard cards and the per-parish rows are what click through to the named roster described above.

Your authority is checked on every click

Signing in does not hand your browser a set of permissions to carry around. Every time you open a page or press a button, the console re-asks who you are and what office you hold, and honours that answer. Three things follow:

• A change takes effect at once. If the chancery promotes you, changes your office, or takes your access away, the very next thing you click reflects it. There is no waiting period and nothing you need to sign out of.
• A move to another diocese ends the old session. If your account is reassigned, the session you had open for your former diocese stops working immediately — sign in again for the new one.
• An account switched off and back on needs a fresh sign-in. Turning an account back on never revives the browser session it had before. That is deliberate.

If your access has been removed or narrowed, the console simply stops answering: pages will not load, and refreshing brings you to the sign-in screen rather than the console. That is the ordinary signal to check with whoever manages diocesan accounts — not a sign that anything is broken.

If sign-in checking is temporarily unavailable

Very occasionally the console cannot reach the service that confirms your authority. When that happens it will not guess, and it deliberately does not show you the sign-in form — signing in would fail the same way, which would only look like your password had stopped working. Instead you get a short panel saying sign-in checking is temporarily unavailable, together with a Try again button.

• Nothing is wrong with your account. The panel is never a sign that you have been removed, disabled, or locked out. The console says so on the panel itself.
• Wait a moment, then press Try again. It clears on its own once the check is reachable; there is nothing to fix at your end.
• Do not keep re-entering your password. No amount of signing in can help while the check is unavailable — the panel exists precisely so you do not spend the effort.

Read-only for now

The pastorate map is a view. Diocesan policies still target the diocese as a whole; aiming a policy at one specific pastorate is a later addition, so today the map informs rather than acts.