The Diocese of Biloxi requires background checks of all clergy, religious men and women, employees and volunteers whose duties include contact with minors and with those individuals who habitually lack or have impaired use of reason. Additionally, all visiting clergy, religious men and women, and external employees coming to work in our diocese are required to supply the pastoral center with a letter of suitability stating them to be compliant with their respective diocese's standards for safe environment and background checks. This includes but is not limited to foreign-born and temporarily assigned priests.

Background checks will be rerun every five years.
 
In the event that a background check does not clear; the pastor or principal is contacted immediately and the employee or volunteer in question is removed from ministry.