CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN AND CHAPLAIN AIDE TRAINING

The following information is what the National Catholic Committee on Scouting (NCCS) web page says about the BSA Chaplain program. (See the italicized paragraph)

The NCCS Chaplain's Committee promotes and supports the concept of Chaplaincy in the programs of Boy Scouting. The Scout Chaplain fulfills an important role by planning and scheduling religious services, providing spiritual direction and advice to Scouts and Scouters and offering guidance and assistance in the Religious Emblems and Religious Activities programs and wherever deemed appropriate.

Here are the job descriptions of Chaplains and Chaplain Aides (from the BSA National Council web page):

Chaplain

• Provides a spiritual tone for all troop meetings and camping experiences.
• Assures members and leaders of their interest in them and their activities.
• Provides spiritual counseling service when needed or requested.
• Provides opportunities for all boys to grow in their relationship with God and their fellow Scouts.
• Encourages Scouts to participate in the religious emblems program of their respective faith.

Chaplain Aide

• Maintains the troop's religious emblems award progress chart.
• Presents an overview of the various religious emblems programs to the troop at least annually, instructing members to contact their own clergyperson or religious counselor to guide them in the appropriate study programs.
• Compiles and keeps an up-to-date list of local clergy who have agreed to be counselors for the religious emblems programs.
• Presents an overview of the religious emblems programs to Cub Scout dens and packs on request.
• Serves as the youth coordinator for the observance of the annual Scout Sabbath or Sunday in February.
• Working with the troop chaplain, usually a member of the clergy composes a Sabbath service appropriate for all troop members during weekend campouts. Invites the troop chaplain to visit a campout, eat with the troop, and conduct a worship service.
• Prepares a troop prayer.
• Assists the troop chaplain, or other appropriate adult, to plan and conduct a religious emblem recognition ceremony. Presentation of a religious emblem is the responsibility of the local religious institution in which it is earned, though it is appropriate for the troop to recognize boys who have received religious emblems at courts of honor.
• Encourages troop members to strengthen their own relationship with God through personal prayer, devotions, and participation in religious activities.
• Participates in patrol leader's council planning sessions, ensuring that a spiritual emphasis is included, e.g., vespers, prayer before meals, religious observances, etc.
• Working with the troop chaplain, composes an appropriate prayer for before and after meals. When composing these prayers, the chaplain and chaplain aide should be sensitive to the various theological and religious positions embraced by the faiths represented in the group.
• Works with the troop chaplain to plan appropriate religious services for all members during weekend troop campouts. Troops may conduct their own religious services, invite the troop chaplain or an exemplary layperson to participate in the service, or they may visit a nearby church, synagogue, temple, mosque, or other religious institution.