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1 - Dec 2015 - Genocide: US religious leaders condemn ISIS genocide against Christians, Nahal Toosi
They include evidence of ISIS assassinations of Church leaders; mass murders; torture; kidnapping for ransom in the Christian communities of Iraq and Syria; its sexual enslavement and systematic rape of Christian girls and women; its practices of forcible conversions to Islam; its destruction of churches monasteries cemeteries and Christian artefacts; and its theft of lands and wealth from Christian clergy and laity alike.
2 - Dec 2015 - Religious freedom: Catholic bishops face more than prosecution over marriage leaflet, Pat Byrne
Bishops priests nuns brothers and laity could face many more prosecutions for teaching Catholic moral theology of the body and marriage which runs counter to the SOGI agenda.
3 - Oct 2015 - APREL: Wake up the world - Religious Life back on the map, Anne Reeves
The Holy Father Pope Francis has asked religious to educate the laity and clergy about the value and purpose of religious in the Church Sister Mary Martin OP said This is because a renewal in the Church wont be deeply rooted and effective without a serious reform and renewal of religious life which is what we all need to pray for and promote.
4 - Oct 2015 - Call to action: Call for urgent action on Religious Education
As Catholic laity are major stakeholders in this problem we feel that congregations should be made aware of the huge crisis in our school system.
5 - Aug 2015 - Books: THE 33 DOCTORS OF THE CHURCH, by Fr Christopher Rengers, Paul Simmons
This is a most interesting book which will be valuable for clergy and laity and gives a wonderful overview of the contribution to the church of some of the greatest minds of Christendom.
6 - Aug 2015 - Pope Francis’ rallying call for the poor
I ask everyone bishops priests and laity as well as the social organisations of the urban and rural peripheries to deepen this encounter.
7 - Feb 2015 - Letters: A rejoinder to Anne Lastman, Charles M. Shann
In fact this morning at a weekday Mass with between sixty and seventy people attending I noted that many of them had their weekday missals and this allows the laity to read the lessons of the day at home which can only be good.
8 - Feb 2015 - Vatican report lays bare problems in US religious life, AD2000 Report
It expressed the hope that the forthcoming Year of Consecrated Life would be a graced opportunity for all of us within the Church religious clergy and laity to take those steps toward forgiveness and reconciliation which will offer a radiant and attractive witness of fraternal communion to all.
9 - Dec 2014 - Letters: Toowoomba trouble, Tristan Ross
Subsequently questionnaires were handed out within the following weeks asking for the laitys opinion on the soon to be lack of priests within the diocese.
10 - Dec 2014 - The Long View: Catholicism today and the lessons of history, John Young
Many bishops and clergy were corrupt partly due to the interference of the secular authorities in the appointment of bishops; most of the laity were ignorant of their Faith; even good popes could make little headway against the forces ranged against them.
11 - Dec 2014 - Family Synod: Synod reaffirms Church teaching on marriage and family, AD2000 Report
In its concluding Message the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops in Rome has reaffirmed the Churchs unbroken teaching on marriage and the family and urged bishops priests and the laity to protect and defend marriage while dealing compassionately with those whose marriages are in trouble or have failed.
12 - Oct 2014 - Books: PRAYER FOR BEGINNERS, Peter Kreeft - WAYS OF PRAYING, John Edwards SJ, Br Barry Coldrey
It should prove a useful and easily available reminder to priests religious and laity and especially to young people of the vital importance of prayer.
13 - Oct 2014 - Do we construct the Church in our own image?, Fr Ken Clark
to many who belong to the Catholic laity and to the ranks of the priesthood itself who .
14 - Oct 2014 - Pope Francis' pastoral focus in visit to South Korea, AD2000 Report
The importance of the laity persists today.
15 - Sep 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
He also lauded the trips focus on the laity calling them a vital force in the growth of the Catholic Church in the country.
16 - Aug 2014 - Books: NEW OUTPOURINGS OF THE SPIRIT, by Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, Br Barry Coldrey
They have proved to be valuable exemplars for the entire Church leaders and laity alike who continue to be invited to welcome the new outpourings of the Spirit.
17 - Aug 2014 - Wilcannia-Forbes: An unusual but welcome ordination, Peter Westmore
The reforms it inaugurated have transformed the Diocese which now has the highest ratio of priests to laity in Australia.
18 - Jun 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
It surveys both persecuted laity and clergy and the local chapels and churches.
19 - Mar 2014 - Books: WHERE WE GOT THE BIBLE: Our Debt to the Catholic Church, by Henry G. Graham, Michael E. Daniel
However she did ban the laity from reading heretical Bibles such as those by Wycliffe and Tyndale.
20 - Mar 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
There are also vibrant signs of life among the laity and throughout the Church.
21 - Dec 2013 - Christifidelis Laici: vocation and mission of the lay faithful (2), Anne Lastman
Continued from the first part of this article - Laity and Clergy The family is central The role of the family is central: The lay faithfuls duty to society primarily begins in marriage and in the family.
22 - Dec 2013 - Christifidelis Laici: vocation and mission of the lay faithful (1), Anne Lastman
In this work the Holy Father as was his usual practice took a specific reference in scripture this time the labourers in the vineyard (Mt 20:1-2) and gave a catechesis tied to the Church the laity and the world.
23 - Nov 2013 - Marriage: Humanae Vitae: for an excellent love, Anne Lastman
Thus there comes to be included in the vast pattern of the vocation of the laity a new and most noteworthy form of the apostolate of like to like: it is married couples themselves who become apostles and guides to other married couples ( HV 26).
24 - Nov 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
The laity would also benefit from the document he noted.
25 - Sep 2013 - Letters: Anniversary of Humanae Vitae, Ken Bayliss
They also detail Paul VIs appeal to the laity to show the love of the Church and to come to her aid following the backlash of followers of the Spirit of Vatican II against Humanae Vitae.
26 - Aug 2013 - Letters: Liturgical abuses, Michael Apthorp
However this wording suggests that the laity have no right to raise such issues with their bishop without first confronting their parish priest.
27 - Jul 2013 - Parody?: Anti-Catholic hate speech, Aussie Style (Move on, nothing to see here), R.J. Stove
In short: the Mainstream Party although it might have no more inherent appeal than any other nest of cockroaches will above all in an election year bear watching by the Catholic laity.
28 - Jun 2013 - Redefining marriage: what of the rights of children?, Denise Hunnell
In spite of the political and cultural momentum favouring this radical new paradigm for marriage there is still a strong opposition in France that is supported and encouraged by Catholic Jewish and Muslim leaders and laity.
29 - May 2013 - History: The Church in the Middle Ages: the role of bishops, Frank Mobbs
Such bishops checked finances including whether tithes had been paid and as judges heard the complaints of parishioners and where necessary imposed punishments on clergy and laity including excommunication.
30 - Apr 2013 - Books: FESTA PASCHALIA: A History of Holy Week Liturgy in the Roman Rite, Goddard, Michael Daniel
Goddard makes the point that the 1955 changes were in response to the situation that because of their length and the fact that all of them were by that stage celebrated in the morning including the anomaly of celebrating the Easter Vigil on Saturday morning they were largely unattended by the laity.
31 - Mar 2013 - Obituary: Creos Roman: may he rest in peace, Bishop Anthony Fisher OP
He joined the Dominican laity.
32 - Mar 2013 - True reform in the Church: Yves Congar's golden mean, Andrew Kania
He calls for the laity to find a voice and then to be heard ( cf.
33 - Mar 2013 - Religious persecution occurs in democracies, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
It is the proper function of bishops to be teachers of the faith but it is also true that the laity exercise a major role in implementing this same faith in the affairs of the world.
34 - Feb 2013 - Pilgrimage: Christus Rex Pilgrimage 2012: from Ballarat to Bendigo, Patrick Doyle
While it has the full support of the clergy the Christus Rex Pilgrimage remains predominantly the work of the laity with enormous effort each year going into its organisation.
35 - Feb 2013 - History: Parish life in the Middle Ages (Part 2): living under canon law, Frank Mobbs
Except in matters of marriage laity are not often made conscious of Canon Law.
36 - Feb 2013 - Adoration: Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration embraced by Brisbane parish, Kate Hobbs
Convinced that it was Gods will that Perpetual Adoration should be spread throughout the world we persevered in our search which involved writing to and speaking with bishops priests and laity.
37 - Dec 2012 - Letters: Bob Santamaria, Brian A. Peachey
Yet when an invitation of his Archbishop to dedicate himself and his remarkable talents totally to the lay apostolate to the dynamising of the Catholic laity was received this truly great Christian man responded immediately.
38 - Dec 2012 - History: Parish life in the Middle Ages (Part 1), Frank Mobbs
Using these most priests gave instructions to laity.
39 - Sep 2012 - Survey confirms crisis of faith in Ireland, Michael Gilchrist
Fr Brendan Hoban a member of of the ACP said those belonging to that organisation were not dissident priests but were merely highlighting opinions from laity.
40 - Sep 2012 - Film: 'For Greater Glory': an inspiring message for today's Christians, Babette Francis
However some church leaders appear to have overlooked the conscience rights of the laity - the butcher the baker and candle-stick maker - who may also have conscientious objections to providing services for homosexual events.
41 - Sep 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
00pm laity coming into the Personal Ordinariate will be received by the Australian Ordinary Msgr Harry Entwistle at Holy Cross Catholic Church 707 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South.
42 - Aug 2012 - The Virgin Mary's key role in our salvation history, Cedric Wright
Perhaps this is what has inspired a modern surge of renewed devotion to Mary and the saints among the Churchs laity encouraged by Pope Benedict himself which is working towards giving Our Heavenly Mother her proper place in a world.
43 - Jul 2012 - Letters: Communion reception, Ken Bayliss
where the priest and congregation face east with the laity encouraged to follow Pope Benedicts desire that people receive Holy Communion on the tongue while kneeling at the altar rails.
44 - Jul 2012 - Benedict XVI: Grave threats to the Church's moral witness, Donald R. McClarey
Here once more we see the need for an engaged articulate and well-formed Catholic laity endowed with a strong critical sense regarding the dominant culture and with the courage to counter a reductive secularism which would delegitimise the Churchs participation in public debate about the issues which are determining the future of American society.
45 - Jul 2012 - 'Born again': how to change from a nominal to a "living" Christian, Andrew Kania
Romain Rolland would write of this danger: All the lazy believers in the churches - clerics and laity alike - who dont believe anything by themselves but remain sprawled out in the barn where they have been cooped up in front of a manger full of convenient beliefs that they only have to take and chew on (Quoted in Congar p.
46 - Jul 2012 - Benedict XVI calls for reform of US Catholic higher education, Hilary White
Most critics agree that this shift in Catholic academia was the source and engine of the more general shift in the same direction throughout the Churchs institutions and among the laity.
47 - May 2012 - Letters: Year of Grace, Ken Bayliss
Many of our readers will recall that it was Cardinal Ratzinger in his Ratzinger Report (1985 English edition) who cited Paul Vls famous words about the Smoke of Satan in the sanctuary and his appeal to the laity of the world to show their love of the Church and to come to her aid.
48 - May 2012 - Episcopacy: Brisbane's new Archbishop well-equipped for the challenges, Michael Gilchrist
While Brisbanes deep-seated problems wont be solved overnight the new Archbishop is well equipped to make inroads especially if he gets the full support of clergy and laity.
49 - Apr 2012 - Books: FRANK DUFF: A Life Story, by Finola Kennedy, Donal Anthony Foley
His view of the role of the laity was far in advance of what many in the Church were prepared to accept at the time but he was vindicated by the teaching of Vatican II.
50 - Apr 2012 - Missions: Where the Church's growth is fastest, Bishop John Thomas Kattrukudiyil
As a consequence of not having any priests was it was the laity who started the evangelisation in Arunachal Pradesh?
51 - Feb 2012 - Letters: SSPX schools, Ken Bayliss
The SSPX laity however are in a quite different position from their bishops and priests.
52 - Feb 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
On the other hand he added A weakened sense of the meaning and importance of Christian worship can only lead to a weakened sense of the specific and essential vocation of the laity to imbue the temporal order with the spirit of the Gospel.
53 - Nov 2011 - Reflection: The Church's architecture: faith translated into vision, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
Churches have been built to allow for the greater participation of the laity in the liturgy.
54 - Aug 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Vatican official confirms rights of laity The laity have a right to appeal to the Vatican via the Nuncio if there are insoluble problems in their dioceses according to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faiths promoter of justice.
55 - Jul 2011 - What attracts converts to the Catholic Church?, Fr F.E. Burns
Obviously these changes (or any others) will have shortcomings but surely the reaction of some who feel they have not been listened to can only contribute to disunity and hurt and confusion for laity and clergy.
56 - Jul 2011 - Whatever happened to the virtue of obedience?, Bishop Julian Porteous
An educated and articulate laity wants to think for itself.
57 - Jun 2011 - Books: THE STORY OF THE LITURGY IN IRELAND, by Edmond Gerard Cullinan, Michael E Daniel
Although some religious orders were able to continue their existence at least until the Cromwellian period in the middle of the 17th century Fr Cullinan argues that the tradition of laity attending the Liturgy of the Hours largely disappeared.
58 - Jun 2011 - Australia's Anglican Ordinariate on track, Bishop Peter Elliott
At the second national level the Australian Ordinariate Implementation Committee brings together the main players that is members of the Anglican Church of Australia and the bishops clergy and laity of the Anglican Catholic Church in Australia (Traditional Anglican Communion.
59 - May 2011 - Liturgy: Welcome to the new translation of the Missal, Audrey English
The changes which concern the responses by the laity occur mainly in the Gloria and in the Creed.
60 - Mar 2011 - Letters: Beatification case for Bob Santamaria, Brian A. Peachey
Yet when an invitation of his Archbishop to dedicate himself and his remarkable talents totally to the lay apostolate to the activating of the Catholic laity was received this truly great Christian man responded immediately.
61 - Feb 2011 - IVF: The Catholic Church and reproductive technologies, Fr John Fleming
I further developed the articles added new material and made it into a new book (details below) which I hoped would be widely disseminated in schools and universities among the clergy and among the laity of the Church.
62 - Feb 2011 - Marriage: US bishops signal a tougher stance in the culture wars, Michael Gilchrist
His comments were made as chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee for the Defence of Marriage which was later upgraded to a subcommittee of the Bishops Committee on Laity Marriage Family Life and Youth.
63 - Feb 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Archbishop Martin pointed to the example of Frank Duff and the Legion of Mary as an indication of what was needed to call Irish Catholics - clergy and laity - back to the essence of their faith.
64 - Dec 2010 - Letters: Lay saint?, Eamonn Keane
Now that Australia has one canonised saint who was a founder of a religious order I think it would be good if the next Australian saint was a member of the laity.
65 - Nov 2010 - Ukrainian Catholics: Ukraine's University of the Catacombs, Andrew Kania
Ever the philanthropist Sheptytskyi provided scholarships to students to study abroad at the universities of Vienna Freiburg Rome and Innsbruck both for clergy and laity.
66 - Jul 2010 - Trends: The Church in 50 years: John Allen's predictions, Frank Mobbs
The trend has been quietly promoted by multiple movements often founded and led by laity.
67 - Jun 2010 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: The Eucharist: the background to Vatican II's liturgical reforms, Br Barry Coldrey
He encouraged early First Communion for children and frequent communion by the adult laity He encouraged research into reform of the Breviary.
68 - Jun 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
That association and two other national groups are working with the US Bishops Committee on Laity Marriage Family Life and Youth to sponsor the event.
69 - Jun 2010 - Missal: New Mass translation: Archbishop Hart interview, Archbishop Denis Hart
It is true some people are seeking to use the liturgy as a battleground where erroneous notions about the Church about relationships between the ordained and laity are sought to be proposed.
70 - May 2010 - Books: BE TO ME A FATHER AND A PRIEST, by Fr Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Michael Daniel
Be to me a Father and a Priest would make ideal reading for the laity and clergy.
71 - May 2010 - Foundations of Faith: The Mass: early centuries to Vatican II, Br Barry Coldrey
The language at times expressed the reality: the laity attended or heard Mass; the priest offered Mass for the people.
72 - Apr 2010 - Bishop Kevin Rhoades: Tribute to an outstanding American Church leader, Fr John Trigilio
What the People of God want and what the priests deacons religious and laity deserve is a man of God loyal to the Roman Pontiff; strong enough to do what has to be done and say what has to be said (especially to his clergy and to Catholic politicians); and humble enough to know he makes mistakes like the rest of us but can also learn from them and do better again and again.
73 - Apr 2010 - Irish child abuse scandal and cover-ups: bishops meet with Pope, Michael Gilchrist
There was a similar sense of outrage reflected by laity priests and religious in this regard.
74 - Mar 2010 - Letters: Evil laws, Ken Bayliss
Both these great pontiffs in succeeding reigns exhorted the laity never to rest as long as any secular law offended natural or divine law.
75 - Mar 2010 - Letters: Genuine ecumenism, Rev Fr M. Durham
Australian Christian leaders and laity take note and act likewise.
76 - Mar 2010 - Foundations of Faith: What the Second Vatican Council really said, John Young
Regarding the laity their baptism and confirmation give them the right and the duty to be apostles of Christ in the world (Decree on the Lay Apostolate n.
77 - Feb 2010 - Books: SECULAR SABOTAGE, by Bill Donahue, Fr Martin Durham
The late Archbishop Fulton Sheen on one occasion remarked that there is no need to worry about the future of the Church as the faithful laity will save it.
78 - Feb 2010 - Books: FIRES OF FAITH: Catholic England Under Mary Tudor, by Eamonn Duffy, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
He also demonstrates that at the time Marys project to restore the Faith enjoyed the support of most of the clergy and laity of England and Wales.
79 - Feb 2010 - Indian martyrs: Present-day martyrs in India and Pakistan, Babette Francis
A bishops representative told Fides the press agency of the Vatican the proposal is expected to establish a special day to remember all priests religious and laity who have sacrificed their lives for their faith in Christ and who are the modern martyrs of India today.
80 - Nov 2009 - Books: This month's selection from AD Books
95 ISBN 978-0-89870-923-0 Theology and Sanity Frank Sheed This is a welcome reprint of Frank Sheeds classic first published in 1946 which anticipated Vatican IIs call for the laity to take a more active role in the life of the Church.
81 - Nov 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
He said the particular identity of priests and laity must be seen in the light of the essential difference between priestly ministry and the common priesthood of the baptised.
82 - Oct 2009 - Priesthood: Why the Catholic Church cannot ordain women, Kathleen Wood OAM
The only acts both men and women of the laity may not perform are absolution blessing and consecration which belong to the sacramental nature of the priesthood.
83 - Jul 2009 - Books: GOD'S WORD: Scripture, Tradition, Office, by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Br Barry Coldrey
For priests religious and laity who are concerned with presenting the Christian message in a positive convincing and attractive way as well as for all who wish to delve into the rich and exciting thought of Benedict XVI this book will prove timely and provide insights for personal reflection preaching and teaching.
84 - Jun 2009 - Letters: Prayers after Mass, Ken Bayliss
The priest said the Leonine Prayers with the laity making the responses then the prayer for the Conversion of Australia and finally the thrice said Most Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy upon us with the seven years indulgence granted by Pope Pius X in 1904.
85 - Apr 2009 - Letters: Dissent, Peter D. Howard
Dr Elmer also believes Both hierarchy and laity are seen as witnesses whose combined efforts thoughts study and reflection lead to the sensus fidei and that the Popes authority can only derive from the whole community.
86 - Mar 2009 - American seminaries mostly 'healthy', but many problems remain
The report also stressed that the formation of laity really ought to take place elsewhere than at a seminary which exists for the formation of candidates to the priesthood.
87 - Mar 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
How much fresh apostolic energy has been created among priests and laity!
88 - Feb 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
St Marys he claimed over the last 20-odd years had tried to be a Vatican II community and we tried to in a sense hand the church over to the people and the priest take a back step and to encourage the laity to take control of the church and they do.
89 - Nov 2008 - Letters: Turnaround needed, John Schmid
Large payouts have been given to victims of Catholic paedophiles whether they be priests religious or laity.
90 - Oct 2008 - Books: SACRED THEN AND SACRED NOW: The Return of the Old Latin Mass, Thomas E. Woods, Fr Martin Durham
the old Mass prevents the active participation of the laity; and 4.
91 - Sep 2008 - Liturgy: No smoke without fire: Benedict XVI and true liturgical reform, David Birch
And with that we are seeing more and more bishops clergy and laity speaking out.
92 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: World Youth Day 2008: what the media missed, Deborah Baker
For secular cynical Sydney awash with 300000 pilgrims - laity priests and religious in their distinctive attire - it was like being flooded with the joy and grace of the Christmas season - on steroids!
93 - Jul 2008 - Books: TURMOIL AND TRUTH, by Philip Trower, Tim Cannon
Finally the laity were variously prone to complacency overly reliant on rules rather than real faith uncertain on some central articles of faith and restive at the continuing restrictions in areas of morality.
94 - Jul 2008 - Letters: Vatican II, John Schmid
The Magisterium should not have to rely on the laity to determine the status of its teachings.
95 - May 2008 - Reflection: How to recover a sense of the sacred at Mass, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
He was no different from the laity.
96 - May 2008 - Youth: Eucharistic devotions: revival in Melbourne, Br Barry Coldrey
In modern times among the apostles of perpetual adoration for the laity none has had a more lasting influence than St Peter Julian Eymard who founded the Blessed Sacrament Fathers in Paris in 1854 and two years later in association with Marguerite Guillot he established the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament a contemplative congregation for women.
97 - May 2008 - Interview: Positive impact of Pope's decree on the Latin Mass, Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos
On the other hand there are American German and French groups and other members of the laity who contact us write us and call in search of reconciliation.
98 - May 2008 - Summorum Pontificum: Benedict XVI's Latin Mass document: a parish priest's response, Fr Andrew Wise
The laity is certainly called to full and active participation in the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM).
99 - Apr 2008 - Adult education: Sydney's Centre for Thomistic Studies, Donald G. Boland
Well before Vatican II Dr Woodbury saw the need to make available to the laity what had for too long been the preserve of a few the treasures of Catholic wisdom to be found in the works of Thomas Aquinas.
100 - Apr 2008 - Church law: Conciliar decrees: what authority do they have?, Frank Mobbs
Not many decrees concern laity.
101 - Mar 2008 - Letters: Response, Richard Stokes
Since there has been no perceptible response to the documents from Rome such as Redemptionis Sacramentum attempting to correct the errors which are almost universal in the archdiocese our spiritual guides are hardly going to correct the activities reported by eyewitnesses among the laity.
102 - Feb 2008 - Books: NO PLACE FOR GOD: The Denial of the Transcendent in Modern Church Architecture, Tony Evans
Available from Freedom Publishing) With Mass attendance declining and young people leaving Catholic schools without the Faith and most churches locked during the day because only vandals would be likely to enter them clergy educationists and interested laity rack their brains for an explanation and a remedy.
103 - Dec 2007 - Architecture: Did Vatican II recommend the removal of altar rails?, M. Cassey
Rev Michael Carey in A Theology of the Sanctuary explains that the active participation of the laity lies in the relationship between the sacrificial action of the laity and the self-sacrifice of Christ.
104 - Dec 2007 - Church History: Interesting aspects of ecumenical councils, Frank Mobbs
So under the present law laity could be Fathers of a council.
105 - Dec 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
The group responded to criticism that the laity would not understand more literal translations.
106 - Oct 2007 - Queensland: Liturgy in Brisbane and the rights of the laity, Michael Apthorp
The 2004 Vatican Instruction Redemptionis Sacramentum reminds us that the laity have important liturgical rights.
107 - Sep 2007 - Laity: How the Legion of Mary can benefit parishes, Fr Hugh Thwaites SJ
Ignorance My edition of the Catechism of the Council of Trent has a long foreword by two Dominicans and they make the point that a main reason for the rapid spread of the Reformation was the frightful ignorance of the faith among the laity.
108 - Sep 2007 - Rediscovering the real history of Australian Catholic education, Eamonn Keane
In my view it is erroneous to assert that fear was a key ingredient used on an uneducated laity by uneducated sisters and brothers who had been trained to blindly obey bishops.
109 - Aug 2007 - World Congress of Families: grass roots ecumenism at work, Babette Francis
While media attention is given to ecumenical initiatives by church leaders little notice is taken of growing ecumenical co-operation by the laity on pro-family issues.
110 - Jul 2007 - Interview: He could no longer explain why he wasn't Catholic, Tim Drake and Francis Beckwith
In terms of expository preaching as well as teaching the laity Protestant evangelicals are without peers in the Christian world.
111 - May 2007 - Letters: Ecumenical councils, Peter D. Howard
This leads to the understanding of the vital importance of the papal infallible doctrine against contraception in Casti Connubii (1930) and Humanae Vitae (1968) an understanding which many priests and laity seem to lack and about which a number of bishops appear oblivious.
112 - May 2007 - Vocations: New religious communities flourishing in the United States, Fr James Lloyd
Of course I meekly suggested that the applause probably meant that Catholic laity liked seeing their religious leaders in distinctive garb but that I was sure that this angry lady was a very good and effective person.
113 - May 2007 - Catechesis: Sydney RCIA conference in June on forming new adult Catholics, Joanne Zwaans
Presentations will treat both the theoretical and practical aspects of how to make RCIA work in a parish setting as well as the essential roles of the bishop priest deacon and laity.
114 - Apr 2007 - Vocations: New survey of successful US dioceses: lessons for Australia, Michael Gilchrist
A priest in the Knoxville Diocese (Tennessee) ranked number one in the survey (and number two in 1995) commented: We are outnumbered we are young we are building churches we are growing there is an enthusiasm for evangelisation among the laity.
115 - Mar 2007 - Letters: Leadership needed, Anne Lastman
Until the Church takes seriously these documents and teaches the laity how to understand and live them nothing will change.
116 - Mar 2007 - Letters: Catholic schools, Kevin McBride
At the same time the mainstream laity were constantly filling their parish churches each Sunday and it was woe-betide anyone arriving late for Mass; indeed it was a case of standing room only.
117 - Feb 2007 - Books: BEGINNING AT JERUSALEM: Five Reflections on the History of the Church, Sr Mariana Handley
In his Reflection Three Olsen ponders the richness of High Medieval Christianity under the inspired influence of Gregory VIIs work concerning the relationship between Church and state and the development of the sanctification of the laity based on the humanity of Christ which led to new religious orders tending to minister to the world rather than flee from it.
118 - Feb 2007 - Priesthood: Orthodox priests in a divided Church, Fr John Trigilio
Worse still they were focused on orthodoxy and Roman control and less inclined to collaboration with the laity.
119 - Feb 2007 - Editorial: The Church and globalisation, Peter Westmore
Sadly this legacy has been largely forgotten in recent years as some clerics have taken over the role of the laity and vice-versa.
120 - Dec 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
He rebuked priests who take an overtly egocentric approach to the liturgy violating the norms of the Church and those priests whose false humility leads them to share their role with the laity.
121 - Dec 2006 - Benedict XVI challenges 'de-Christianisation' of society, Michael Gilchrist
He added: The importance of the laitys role must not bring us to underestimate the ministry of priests so indispensable for the life of the Church.
122 - Oct 2006 - Letters: Missal translation, Philip Holberton
It seems the new English translation of the Order of Mass is not to be revealed to the laity until the Vatican has approved it.
123 - Oct 2006 - Spanish bishops attack false theologies, AD2000 Report
The existence of these groups sows divisions and gravely disorients the faithful is a cause of suffering for many Christians (priests religious and laity) and is an occasion of scandal .
124 - Sep 2006 - Clergy: ACCC Annual Conference focuses on theology of Benedict XVI, AD2000 Report
Dr Rowlands public lecture was well-attended by laity and clergy with one mother-of-three a nurse by profession declaring to the gathering how much she was inspired and enthralled by the talk.
125 - Sep 2006 - History: The Counter Reformation and the Jesuits, John Morrissey
But by 1577 Rome could afford to reject John III of Swedens offer to return his country to Catholicism if the cup for the laity the vernacular and married clergy were conceded.
126 - Aug 2006 - Melbourne: Caroline Chisholm Catholic library, Barbara Shea
We see our apostolate as being to nurture the faith of the laity by providing excellent resources.
127 - Aug 2006 - Letters: Tasmania, Justin Kearney
It was inspiring to hear the faith journey of a man who had committed himself to God and the priesthood in such difficult times for the Church and laity.
128 - Jul 2006 - Evangelisation: Strong leadership: US bishop Robert Finn shows how, AD2000 Report
These vocations are a super- priority because without them the authentic identity of the vocation of the laity is at risk.
129 - Jun 2006 - Education: Why do CEOs use Groome's RE method?, AD2000 Report
In Ministry Fr McBrien claims that in the early Church there was no hard-and-fast distinction between clergy and laity and that this distinction only began to develop with the establishment of Christianity as the state religion in the fourth century (p.
130 - May 2006 - Reflection: Oneness in Christ: the heart of the priesthood, Fr John W. O'Neill PP
May our laity pray for their priests.
131 - May 2006 - Vocations: Can religious life be rebuilt in Australia?, Sr Mary Augustine OP
Validation We suffer also from the marked tendency amongst clergy and laity to judge the value of religious men or women on how much apostolic work they manage to accomplish.
132 - May 2006 - Benedict's first twelve months: 'We Are Church' delivers its verdict, Michael Gilchrist
We call upon him to begin a new phase of the church by recognizing that laity is the Churchs treasure rather than its problem and that those of us who raise our voices for reform and renewal are indeed faithful Catholics possessing a true capacity for reflection and discernment and a genuine love for the whole church.
133 - Apr 2006 - 1973 Decree: A Fourth Rite of Reconciliation for Queensland?, AD2000
Involved here as well is a further blurring of the distinction between the ministerial priesthood and the priesthood of the laity.
134 - Mar 2006 - Letters: Guitars, John Daly
Many priests dont; why should the laity?
135 - Mar 2006 - Modernism: 'New Church' not true Church: what modernists believe, Pastor Remotus
Pope John Paul II and the former Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) have been stalwart defenders of the traditional and orthodox tenets of the Catholic Faith and consequently have been subjected to bitter opposition and attacks by clergy religious and laity who have the modernist mindset.
136 - Mar 2006 - Archbishop Hickey: how to address the crisis of faith, Archbishop Barry Hickey
They held that the policies of the Vatican recent episcopal appointments and the influence of backroom conservatives are the reasons why the advances inspired by Vatican II have stalled: in the enculturation of the liturgy; in the participation of the laity especially of women; in the decision-making processes of the Church; in the ordination of married men and in moderating the law of celibacy; in a renewed understanding of human sexuality and in the inclusion of minority lifestyles in the Eucharist.
137 - Mar 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Anglican group seeks full communion with Rome The Traditional Anglican Communion 400000 laity and clergy separate from the Anglican Church has drawn up detailed plans on how to come into full communion with the Holy See according to a report in the US National Catholic Register on 24 December.
138 - Feb 2006 - New Age paganism's creeping influence within the Church, Wanda Skowronska
There is a need to protect the laity from this current creeping blend of the pagan and sacred.
139 - Feb 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
A group of Anglican leaders opposed to the idea planned to meet at Westminster in January 2006 together with over 1000 priests bishops and laity.
140 - Nov 2005 - Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist: areas for remedial action identified, Peter Westmore
Since justice consists in giving each their rights he said bishops should guarantee a satisfactory response to justified complaints from the laity.
141 - Oct 2005 - Reflection: What the early Church tells us about the celebration of Mass, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
Likewise as history gloriously testifies through the following centuries in various unbelieving countries many more thousands of brave Christians laity and clergy alike defied dungeon fire and sword and died as martyrs for their staunch belief in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
142 - Oct 2005 - Youth: The lasting impact of World Youth Day, Sannon Donahoo
Here young Catholics are able to meet committed laity and clergy and learn from them; not just from what they say but from their personal witness.
143 - Sep 2005 - Canadian Bishops' cave-in to 'renegade Catholicism' under fire
It is thus left to the laity to do for the Catholic Church that for which its hands on leadership have not the stomach.
144 - Sep 2005 - Events: Sydney to host World Youth Day 2008, AD2000 REPORT
Cardinal Francis Stafford head of the Apostolic Penitentiary and former head of the Pontifical Council for the Laity also provided catechesis while others to address various groups were Cardinal Pell and Cardinal Francis Arinze.
145 - Aug 2005 - Reflection: How we will overcome the shortage of priests, Fr John O'Neill PP
From a laity so developed we will have no shortage of men who will be devoted to him with his vision of how to be practical in lifting mankind out of the doldrums.
146 - Aug 2005 - Campus Life: Cardinal Pell's program for a Catholic culture at Sydney's universities, Stephen Lawrence
In 2004 following the International Youth Forum Witnessing to Christ in the University run by the Pontifical Council for the Laity which placed high emphasis on the need of human formation for young people while at university the University of Sydney chaplaincy has been running formation days for both men and women on such topics as living in the world as a Christian and the call to holiness.
147 - Aug 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
The final decision rests with the Pontifical Council for the Laity in Rome.
148 - Jul 2005 - Living Stones: Church architecture: can a sense of the sacred be recovered?, Christian Xavier
For how can the laity be expected to respect the liturgy if the very buildings in which it is celebrated tend to undermine what the Church proclaims that the liturgy is sacred.
149 - Jun 2005 - Books: John Paul the Great, edited by William Oddie, John R. Barich
The Popes vibrant perspective on the role of the laity is provided by the bi-polarity of the Marian and Petrine profiles of the Church.
150 - Jun 2005 - Letters: Revolt manifesto, P. Gartland
Women men priests and laity should all participate equally in the life of the Church and decide matters of faith and morals at the grass roots.
151 - Apr 2005 - Books: The Path to Rome: Modern Journeys to the Catholic Church, Michael Casanova
The 1990s have seen the largest influx of laity and clergy into the Catholic Church in England since the period following Catholic emancipation (1827).
152 - Apr 2005 - Letters: Dissent, Fr John Speekman
Everywhere one looks one sees the same inversion which finds perhaps its ugliest expression in the constant call to laity and priests to shape the Church of the future whereas in actuality we should be allowing ourselves to be shaped by the Church of the present.
153 - Apr 2005 - Vocations: Why some new religious orders are attracting recruits, Fr John Hogan
To see Vatican II only as the age of the laity is to miss much of what the Council was doing: it was looking for reform in all areas of Church life to meet the challenges of the modern world with the undiluted teaching of Jesus Christ.
154 - Apr 2005 - Exploding myths about the 'pre-Vatican II' Church, John Young
For example we are confidently told that Bible reading by the laity was discouraged by the pre-Vatican II Church.
155 - Feb 2005 - Letters: Fiji example (letter), Tom King
The crisis within the Catholic Church in Australia is an issue that must not be swept under the carpet by those laity or management people who have presided over this betrayal and sad neglect over the previous several decades.
156 - Feb 2005 - Religious Life: Faith and Reason: for a true renewal in religious life and the Church, Sr Mary Augustine OP
Call to Holiness is just one of the excellent initiatives by the laity to expose Catholics to the teachings of the Magisterium.
157 - Nov 2004 - Ad limina: The Pope calls for strong leadership from New Zealand's Bishops, Michael Gilchrist
Teacher education As in Australia a major challenge given the predominant role of the laity in todays Catholic schools is to ensure that teachers believe and practise the Faith.
158 - Sep 2004 - Why not a little Latin in the liturgy?, Angus Sibley
Now that we have gone to great lengths to make our liturgy audible understandable and shareable between priest and laity congregations have in many places more than halved.
159 - Aug 2004 - Reflection: Why teaching in a Catholic school is far more than a profession, Fr Dennis Byrnes
Teaching is always a challenge; but with the co-operation and encouragement of parents clergy and religious the laitys involvement in Catholic education is a precious service of the Gospel and a way of Christian sanctification for teacher and students.
160 - Aug 2004 - Books: DANIEL MANNIX: Wit and Wisdom, by Michael Gilchrist, Hermann Kelly
Throughout his life the witty and sometimes ascerbic Dr Mannix was committed to enlightening Catholic and public opinion and encouraging the laity to Christianise the social and political environments.
161 - Aug 2004 - Letters: Threats to family, Gordon Southern
As we approach Federal and ACT elections this year let us pray that our bishops will continue to provide vigorous leadership on this matter equipping and exhorting the laity to exercise their duty to publicly resist this gravely unjust legislation and the larger agenda behind it - legal recognition of unions between homosexual persons and the further erosion of the family in Australia.
162 - Jul 2004 - Eucharistic Adoration: heart of evangelisation, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
Both laity and clergy should be realistic and brace themselves in the realm of orthodoxy and defend Christ and his teachings on common grounds without shifting camps.
163 - Jul 2004 - Liturgy: New improved English Mass translation nears completion, Michael Gilchhrist
This will be necessary for priests religious and laity to prepare for the new translation after 30 years of using a defective one (completed in haste during the heady years after the Council when the spirit of Vatican II was rampant).
164 - Jun 2004 - Theology of the Body: Why the silence on the Church's moral teachings?, Audrey Dillon
Role of laity I can understand the reluctance of priests to bring up these matters.
165 - May 2004 - Priesthood: Pope's World Day of Prayer for Vocations, Fr Paul Stuart
The direction of the Melbourne Vocations Office is to plan and pray for a priestly Church that respects the baptismal priesthood of the laity but also zealously promotes and defends the essential and unique priesthood of the ordained.
166 - May 2004 - New liturgy document: Rome affirms right of laity to complain about abuses, Michael Gilchrist
The recent Instruction from the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments on certain matters to be observed or to be avoided regarding the Most Holy Eucharist vindicates the right of the laity to complain about liturgical abuses.
167 - Apr 2004 - Books: Archbishop Hart launches new book on Dr Mannix - Daniel Mannix: Wit and Wisdom, Archbishop Dennis Hart
Mannixs constant leadership in this sphere is recounted and it may well be said that if Archbishop Carr is remembered for his work on education Mannix took that whole process a step further in his involvement of the laity in Church and society.
168 - Apr 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Pastors must take ever greater care with the collaboration of the laity in the preparation of Sunday liturgy paying special attention to the rite and beauty of the celebration .
169 - Feb 2004 - Interview: Scott Hahn interviewed on Dei Verbum : What Vatican II taught about Scripture, Zenit News Service
Forty years after the Second Vatican Council Zenit News Service has been interviewing Church leaders and prominent laity regarding the main documents of the Council.
170 - Nov 2003 - Vocations: Father James Gould and the hallmarks of successful vocations promotion, Michael Rose
In this age of collaborative ministry with the laity many priests may have slipped away from the meaning of hard work.
171 - Nov 2003 - Melbourne on course despite brain drain, Fr Paul Stuart
Spiritually and intellectually they have fed and guided countless laity and seminarians diocesan and religious in Melbourne.
172 - Sep 2003 - Letters: Liturgical choices (letter), Marguerite Fennell
The communal focus of the new Mass and the transcendent sacredness of the old(er) rite complement each other at least to the point of offering clergy and laity legitimate options of worship.
173 - Sep 2003 - Understanding the Catholic Liturgy since Vatican II, Dom Alcuin Reid OSB
Fourthly the celebration according to the traditional liturgical books from prior to the Council must be freely available to clergy and laity alike.
174 - Sep 2003 - Catholic summer conferences in the United States: signs of hope, Richard Egan
Dr Hahn has launched a new St Pauls Centre for Biblical Theology which is aiming to promote biblical literacy for the laity and biblical fluency for clergy and teachers.
175 - Sep 2003 - Dissident US group establishing a foothold in Australian parishes, Mary-Ruth Monsour
One of VOTFs founders and a trustee Svea Fraser remarked: The battle isnt clergy against laity but laity and clergy against episcopacy.
176 - Aug 2003 - Church architecture: overcoming iconoclasts and cult of ugliness, Larry Henderson
It required a time when clergy threw off ecclesiastical control when front runners among congregations took over when laity bemused by change went with the tide for all this to happen.
177 - Aug 2003 - Catalyst for Renewal Address: The legacy of Vatican II, Archbishop George Pell
Another important but undernoted development was the espousal of the role of the laity of the rights and responsibilities that follow from baptism.
178 - Jul 2003 - Events: Seeking the face of Christ through the arts: Carnivale Christi goes national, Nicholas Rynne
This importance was recognised by Cardinal James Francis Stafford Prefect of the Pontifical Council for the Laity who after opening the Carnivale Christi Sydney on 2 May asked for two extra copies of the national program - one for the archives of the Pontifical Council for the Laity and the other to give to the Holy Father.
179 - Jun 2003 - Letters: Eucharistic encyclical and the priesthood (letter), John Kelly
In his most recent encyclical Ecclesia De Eucharistia Pope John Paul II has provided priests and laity with a profound and inspiring definition of the intrinsic relationship between Christ the Eucharist and the Church; and of the priests identity intimately connected with these saving realities.
180 - Jun 2003 - Laity: The role of lay Catholics in a time of crisis, Mary Ann Glendon
The following are extracts from an address by Mary Ann Glendon given late last year at the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical Athenaeum on the role and renewal of the Catholic laity.
181 - May 2003 - Architecture: 'Re-ordered' and 'new' churches - symptoms of a wider spiritual malaise, Marie Cassey
In an age when we decry the lack of faith the falling numbers of practising laity and priestly vocations should we not be putting our energies into conserving and preserving Catholicism?
182 - May 2003 - Brisbane archdiocesan synod: challenges needing to be addressed, Peter Howard
It is also worrying that the laity are being given titles such as chaplain and pastoral director in contravention of Canons 515 517 and 519.
183 - May 2003 - Events: Carnivale Christi 2003 - A tale of four cities, Anthony McCarthy
On Friday 2 May Cardinal Francis Stafford President of the Pontifical Council for Laity will open the third annual Carnivale Christi Sydney at the Seymour Centre of the University of Sydney.
184 - Apr 2003 - Letters: Vatican II (letter), Denis O'Leary
Over the years we have experienced the various changes in liturgy language music and sanctuary layout imposed by priests religious and activist members of the laity.
185 - Apr 2003 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Cardinal Stafford to visit Australia in April To give major addresses in Melbourne and Sydney Cardinal James Francis Stafford head of the Pontifical Council of the Laity will visit Australia during April and be involved in several public events in Melbourne and Sydney.
186 - Mar 2003 - Letters: Infallible teaching (letter), Peter Howard
They in turn mislead priests and laity because they have never been properly taught or they wilfully deny the Vatican I dogma.
187 - Mar 2003 - New Age ideas: how Catholics should respond, Fr Peter Joseph
The well-known lengthy prayer of Pope Leo XIII against Satan and the rebellious angels is not for use by the laity said the Holy Office in 1985.
188 - Mar 2003 - Vatican tells politicians: Don't hide your light, Michael Casanova
On 16 January 2003 the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith published a 15-page message for bishops Catholic politicians and all laity: the Doctrinal Note on some questions regarding the participation of Catholics in political life.
189 - Mar 2003 - Ten years on former Anglicans enrich Church, Fr Peter Geldard
Since then many hundreds of Anglican priests - together with thousands of their laity - have come into full communion with the Catholic Church.
190 - Feb 2003 - Vocations: Sydney seminary growth based on orthodoxy, fidelity, Fr Julian Porteous
While the vast majority of priests faithfully serve the Church and their people the constant media scrutiny the accusations of serious sexual impropriety and the steady stream of negative comments cannot but undermine the morale of both clergy and laity.
191 - Dec 2002 - Letters: Women's Commission (2) (letter), Dr Myles M. Kehoe
Almost without exception they were exhorting the laity to request the ordination of women and the restoration of the Third Rite of Reconciliation.
192 - Dec 2002 - Letters: Clergy support (letter), Peter R. McNamara
The media has topped off the last twenty years cry of Down with the bishops - heard not only from so many of the laity but also from too many of the clergy.
193 - Dec 2002 - New Vatican Instruction on priesthood: the challenge to be another Christ, AD2000 Report
The document warns of the danger of clericalising the laity and of secularising the clergy as when the generous commitment of the laity in the areas of worship transmission of the faith and pastoral collaboration in the face of shortages of priests has tempted some sacred ministers and laity to go beyond that which is permitted by the Church and by their own ontological sacramental capacities.
194 - Nov 2002 - Father Fessio: real US crisis is 'spiritual abuse', Karl Maurer
The crisis of dissenting Catholic laity priests and bishops said Fr Fessio was born in the rejection the Churchs teaching in Humanae Vitae.
195 - Oct 2002 - Books: The Courage to be Catholic, by George Weigel, Michael Novak
Weigel sets forth an agenda for genuine reform that challenges seminarians priests bishops and the laity to lead more integrally Catholic lives.
196 - Oct 2002 - Letters: Zero tolerance (letter), Alan A. Hoysted
I repeat they dont deserve any sympathy or mercy from the Hierarchy Clergy Religious or the Laity of the Church they have betrayed.
197 - Oct 2002 - Catholic liturgy in the 21st century: major challenges facing the Church, Fr Peter Williams
Given the recent publication of a new Directory on the place of popular devotions in the life of the Church and a resurgent interest by many of the laity in private prayer and devotion do our church buildings adequately provide for meeting these needs in terms of both religious iconography and the orientation of the space?
198 - Oct 2002 - Bishop Power: Church teachings need to be 're-examined', AD2000 REPORT
In fact Vatican II teaches quite the opposite: The laity should promptly accept in Christian obedience what is decided by the pastors who as teachers and rulers of the Church represent Christ.
199 - Oct 2002 - Liturgy: Vatican control over ICEL tightens, Dr William Oddie
The fact is however that - as we commented at the time - there is a widespread feeling among the laity that the intervention of Rome in the question of how the liturgy should be translated was to be welcomed and that it would have been an excellent thing if it had come years ago.
200 - Oct 2002 - Commission for Australian Catholic Women justifies its existence, Michael Gilchrist
Recommendations Among recommendations to emerge from the meeting were: Valuing the role of laity in ministry especially in Reconciliation whatever that might mean; Recognising the spirituality of young women which acknowledges the centrality of Jesus inclusiveness and ethnic and indigenous spirituality; Highlighting the importance of the use of inclusive language; Ongoing consultation with indigenous people; and The need for new models of Church which were more engaging acknowledged indigenous people and acknowledged the importance of story especially womens stories.
201 - Aug 2002 - Helping Catholic school students to love the Church, Br John Moylan CFC
The other is an understanding of the Church as being hierarchical in nature a society in which members have different functions according to their place in it as bishop clergy or laity.
202 - Aug 2002 - Sexual abuse, celibacy and vocations: a response to the Church's critics, Fr Paul Stuart
The present sex-abuse scandal has demoralised clergy and laity.
203 - Aug 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Zenit News Servic Neocatechumenal Way statute approved Cardinals and bishops from around the world express support On 28 June Cardinal James Francis Stafford President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity presented the decree of approval of the statute of the Neocatechumenal Way to its leaders Kiko Arguello Carmen Hernandez and Fr Mario Pezzi.
204 - Jul 2002 - Reflection: John Paul II clarifies Vatican II teaching on lay and priestly roles, Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul IIs address to the bishops of the Antilles on 7 May during their ad limina visit concentrated on the deep complementarity - not identity - of the roles of priests and laity in the Church.
205 - Jul 2002 - Books: The Modern Rite, by Mgr Klaus Gamber, Fr Peter Joseph
The topics covered include: the orientation of the altar and Mass facing the people; the problem of the vernacular; the reform of the calendar; Communion in the hand; the antiquity of the doctrine of the Mass as a sacrifice; participation by the laity; liturgical continuity.
206 - Jul 2002 - Letters: Vatican II (letter), Peter D. Howard
At the same time Fr Harrison realises that few laity will have access to all of this and thus too often will be victimised and abused by those against orthodoxy and tradition.
207 - Jul 2002 - Letters: Zero tolerance (letter), Alan A. Hoysted
Not only have pedophiles callously scarred the lives of their young victims but they have severely and cruelly hurt the loyal priests brothers monks nuns and laity and the credibility of the institution of the Church itself.
208 - Jul 2002 - Vatican II, church architecture and "reform of the reform", Sidney Rofe
As a result many innovations were incorrectly applied to churches in the name of Vatican II - involving iconoclasm a loss of sacredness and symbolism a diminishing of hierarchy clericalisation of the laity confusion over the sacrificial and meal aspects of the Mass and an over-emphasis on community-focused worship at the expense of the central Christological themes.
209 - Jul 2002 - Cardinal Avery Dulles: US Jesuits need 'wake-up call', Michael Gilchrist
The latter group interpreted Vatican II as a kind of palace revolution in which the bishops put limits on the papacy decentralised the Church and transferred to the laity many powers formerly reserved to priests.
210 - Jul 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
In April 2001 Pope John Paul II pointed out that the statutes for the Neo-Catechumenate Way posed a delicate problem regarding the relations between priests and laity.
211 - Jun 2002 - Letters: Good example (letter), Paul Foster
It was refreshing to read in the edited text of Archbishop Harts address on The rights and responsibilities of laity in the Catholic Church a reference to leaving the Church to do our thinking for us.
212 - Jun 2002 - A post-1968 Catholic's view of R.E.: 'My generation was shortchanged', Mark Power
The spirit of Vatican II lives in us so the laity (or at least the better-informed among us) should be consulted on such matters as the appointments of new bishops or priests.
213 - May 2002 - 'The Resurrection in the university' - IMCSA National Conference in Sydney, Nicholas Rynne
Indeed without the generous support of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference and the Bishops Committee for Laity the IMCSA and its Annual Conference could scarcely exist.
214 - Apr 2002 - Letters: Evangelisation (letter), Mavis Power
We are asking them to lead us in a common commitment which will challenge the laity priests and religious to rediscover those dimensions of our faith that are the fruit of Gods call and to evangelise our own fallen-away Catholics.
215 - Apr 2002 - Melbourne TMC: The rights and responsibilities of laity in the Catholic Church, Archbishop Denis Hart
The word laity comes from laos which means people.
216 - Mar 2002 - Letters: Testimonies, Raymond de Souza
Mavis Powers initiative fits in very well with Archbishop Hickeys desire to see the laity becoming more and more involved in the apostolate of the Church.
217 - Mar 2002 - Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration spreads throughout the world, Fr Douglas Harris
Since that fateful day of 11 September 2001 the Society for Perpetual Adoration in the US has been almost inundated with requests from priests and laity for perpetual adoration in their parishes.
218 - Feb 2002 - Letters: Real Presence, Philip Robinson
It is up to our bishops and clergy to re-educate the Catholic laity in the Real Presence.
219 - Feb 2002 - Melbourne Archdiocese: positive trend in priestly vocations continues, Fr Paul Stuart
Among some there was once a strong notion of the priesthood as being just another ministry in the Church distinguishable only by some of its functions being reserved oppressively to it and denied to the laity.
220 - Feb 2002 - Archbishop Philip Wilson sets out his agenda for Adelaide, Michael Gilchrist
It enabled some 7000 laity and dignitaries priests and bishops to be accommodated - six times more than St Francis Xaviers Cathedral could hold.
221 - Dec 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
A group of priests religious and laity from the Nigata and Urawa dioceses in Japan travelled to Beijing and Nanjing in October to pay homage to the victims of the massacres committed by the Japanese Imperial Army during the Sino-Japanese war.
222 - Nov 2001 - Opinion: Catholics before and after Vatican II: separating fact from myth, John Young
Apparently it was a place where the priests word and even the nuns word was accepted with unthinking obedience; where Scripture was shunned; where little existed in the way of a lay apostolate; where rules and regulations reigned supreme; where the laity were passive at Mass; where intolerance towards non-Catholics was part of the typical Catholics mentality.
223 - Nov 2001 - Tenth Synod of Bishops: Bishops called to courageous witness to the Faith, AD2000
Previous meetings of the Synod have dealt with topics such as the family (1980) the role of the laity (in 1987) the priesthood (1990) and consecrated life (1994).
224 - Oct 2001 - Books: 'The Spirit of the Liturgy' by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Christopher Quinn
According to Cardinal Ratzinger it helped us to rediscover the liturgy in all its beauty hidden wealth and time-transcending grandeur to see it as the animating centre of the Church the very centre of Christian life at a time when the liturgy was for the laity largely concealed beneath instructions for and forms of private prayer.
225 - Oct 2001 - Letters: Liturgy translation (letter), Jack R. Nyman
The Creed was originally in Greek and was intended for bishops not for the laity.
226 - Oct 2001 - Anglican General Synod 2001 - moves towards women bishops delayed, Nigel Zimmermann
The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia held every three years consists of about 250 lay and clerical members forming the three houses of Bishops Clergy and Laity.
227 - Oct 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Lay and priestly roles are distinctive says Vatican Cardinal Sodanos Letter for Italian Liturgical Week The need to avoid both the clericalisation of the laity and the secularisation of priests is the essence of a letter signed by the Vatican Secretary of State on behalf of John Paul II.
228 - Sep 2001 - Letters: Charter (letter), Rev A.T. Fitzpatrick
Bring on all groups of the laity that do so show loyalty to the Church.
229 - Sep 2001 - Letters: More on Marins (letter), Peter Finlayson
An obvious question arising from the articles and correspondence on this issue so far is: do we really need this model of Church to apply Canon 211 about the obligation of the laity to undertake out-reaching missionary activities as a normal part of their day-to-day lives?
230 - Aug 2001 - Denver Archdiocese: the future of Catholicism, David Scott
Francis Stafford a theologian and intellectual who is now a cardinal and head of the Pontifical Council for the Laity in Rome.
231 - Aug 2001 - After 14 years: why does AD2000 continue?, Michael Gilchrist
But the strengthening of orthodoxy through John Paul IIs leadership the leadership of new bishops the rise of new movements in the Church and the consolidation of a determined laity are what constitute the beginning of a revival.
232 - Aug 2001 - Melbourne's new Archbishop receives Pallium from John Paul II, AD2000 Report
Since 1998 he has been a member of the Bishops Committee for the Laity and since 2000 of the Committee for Liturgy.
233 - Jul 2001 - Report on Marins BECs workshop in Ballarat, Peter Finlayson
The teams core theme of an out-reaching missionary Church could only be applauded affirming the role of the laity in accord with Canon 211 of the current (1983) Code of Canon Law: All Christs faithful have the obligation and the right to strive so that the divine message of salvation may more and more reach all people of all times and all places - although neither this nor the Magisterium were ever referred to by the team.
234 - May 2001 - Letters: Scripture truth (letter), Mary Beaumont
His letter is for everyone both clergy and laity both men and women.
235 - May 2001 - Letters: Queensland Bishops (letter), Dr Tim Coyle
The impression is that the shortage of Australian priests is being used to provide a platform for male and especially female laity and religious with presbyterial ambitions.
236 - May 2001 - Letters: Destruction (letter), John D. Pratt
Bishops priests and laity - gullible all - participated in this continuing the program even today in places.
237 - May 2001 - The Church in Germany: John Paul II expresses serious concerns, Catholic World News
He points to problems particularly in the domains of ecumenical affairs theological speculation and the involvement of the laity in public ministry.
238 - Apr 2001 - Thomas More Centre Summer School 2001: "Building a Culture of Life", Michael Daniel
This is an area where she argued the laity can take the lead.
239 - Apr 2001 - US parishioners more outspoken about church "renovations", Zenit News Service
Despite increasing interest in such documents by the laity Sister Arlene Bennett Director of the Secretariat for Worship and Liturgical Formation for the Diocese of Gaylord Michigan thinks opponents of renovation projects tend to be ill-informed: What were trying to do is follow the official Church directive and people who havent had an education in the Church since the Second Vatican Council have a problem with anything that is being changed in the Church said Sister Arlene a proponent of the controversial renovation of St Francis Xavier Church in Petoskey.
240 - Mar 2001 - Books: Why the hopes of the Council Fathers of Vatican II are yet to be realised, Michael Daniel
This dissent led in turn to confusion among the laity.
241 - Mar 2001 - Books: Streams of Living Water: Autobiography of a Charismatic Leader, Anthony Cappello
It was Brian Smith who was at the forefront as their representative during every stage of their development so much so that he was appointed as a member of the Pontifical Council for the Laity.
242 - Feb 2001 - Books: 'The Sacred Liturgy', 'Discovering the Mass', by a Benedictine monk, Christopher Quinn
Here we have three small books written in a straightforward non-specialist style which open up the riches of liturgical tradition in a manner that provides a basic liturgical catechesis for the beginner and that equally stimulate the thinking of informed laity priests and religious.
243 - Feb 2001 - Successful Thomas More Spring School in Wagga, Paul Sheehan
The local ordinary Bishop William Brennan supported the conference and delivered an address on developments in the areas of religious life and the laity in the Wagga Wagga Diocese since he was installed as Bishop in the mid-1980s.
244 - Feb 2001 - The "priest shortage": natural or artificial?, Larry A. Carstens
The number of priests has been in decline while the number of laity has continually risen.
245 - Feb 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Meanwhile a publication titled Voice of the Laity has criticised the process contrasting the shortage of priestly vocations in Adelaide with other Australian dioceses.
246 - Dec 2000 - Summer School of Evangelisation 2001
It is a member of the Catholic Fraternity of Charismatic Communities whose statutes were recognised by the Pontifical Association for the Laity in 1990.
247 - Oct 2000 - How orthodox are Australian Catholic University's professorial staff?, Eamonn Keane
In one article on his web page titled Women And The Church Koszarycz states: Given our modern understandings of justice and equality the Church in maintaining a significant distinction between hierarchy and laity and the excluding of women from priesthood radically affirms womens inferior position among the people of God.
248 - Oct 2000 - Contentious Social Justice Statement on women's participation published, Michael Gilchrist
The Statement concludes by exhorting bishops and others responsible to ensure that womens needs in relation to participation in the Church be made a financial priority for the Church that when pointing to the signs of the times acknowledge positive developments in the role and status of women and that greater attention be given to the education of clergy religious and laity towards attitudinal change in recognising equal value equal rights of women and men within the lay faithful of the Church.
249 - Sep 2000 - The 'Statement of Conclusions' and liturgy: what needs to be done, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Letters of complaint from angry laity do not always square up with what bishops see.
250 - Sep 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
These Forums are organised by the youth section of the Pontifical Council for the Laity.
251 - Jul 2000 - New campus of John Paul II Institute set to open in Melbourne, AD2000 Report
The Melbourne Campus of the Institute according to Archbishop Pell could be expected to provide high quality education and practical training in the theology and pastoral practice of marriage and the family for laity priests and religious.
252 - Jun 2000 - Shedding further light on the English Reformation under Edward VI, Michael Daniel
Likewise Bishop Hooper of Gloucester orchestrated an inquiry to establish whether the laity refuse their own parish and frequent and haunt other where the communion is more like a mass than in his own (p.
253 - Jun 2000 - New Primate: Anglican divisions intensify, Rev David Robarts
To have worthy local laity presiding at the Eucharist - a notion not uncongenial to Catholic theologians like Kng and Schillebeeckx - is one espoused by many evangelical Anglicans who set no store by a sacerdotal priesthood but whose primary concern is the proclamation of the Word and planting new churches.
254 - May 2000 - How do we know whether a sacrament is valid or not?, Fr Peter Joseph
Such a doctrine is a consolation to the laity who can therefore have perfect confidence in the rites of the Church without needing to know the personal state of the minister.
255 - Apr 2000 - Coming Home Network: a Catholic apostolate for converts, Marcus Grodi
The majority of complaints against the Catholic Church over the centuries have been aimed at the decisions and actions of bad popes or immoral clergy or ignorant laity or corrupt Catholic nobility and the correct answer to this is But of course!
256 - Feb 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Church News German bishops in Rome Pope expresses his concerns During a 20 November meeting with a group of German bishops Pope John Paul II promised to use clear and direct language on a number of topics including Church involvement in abortion counselling the role of women in the Church the distinction between laity and clergy and the all-male priesthood.
257 - Sep 1999 - Religious Life: The crisis of women religious not confined to the United States, Sr Kathleen Dalton
She admits that the answers to these questions are complex and that the facts presented will inevitably be interpreted in different ways since some sisters clergy hierarchy and laity continue to deny that a crisis exists.
258 - Sep 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
While other liturgical ministries such as lectoring serving at Mass providing music or being an usher belonged properly to the laity Eucharistic ministry properly belongs to the sacrament of holy orders.
259 - Jul 1999 - Religious education reform in the Melbourne Archdiocese under attack, John S. Webster
One needs only to observe the average age of priests religious and practising laity to realise that the Catholic church in this country is still benefiting from this heritage though with increasing difficulty as the years progress.
260 - May 1999 - Victoria's Governor pays tribute to Dr Mannix, Sir James Gobbo
The same was true when he encouraged Catholic laity to involve themselves in public life and social justice causes.
261 - May 1999 - Vocations: Confronting today's vocations crisis, Fr Paul Stuart
The latter path is the attempt by Catholics - clergy religious and laity - to blend in to the world to avoid at great cost any real or apparent differences that the Christian life may hold in comparison to the secular.
262 - Apr 1999 - Extending general absolution: why such a move is out of the question, Fr Peter Joseph
For all these reasons and others the laity need to be advised to avoid any illegitimate sessions conducted in their parishes.
263 - Mar 1999 - Charles Chaput: a remarkable American Archbishop, Louis Power
In early 1997 came the call to Denver to fill the vacancy created by the appointment of Archbishop (now Cardinal) Francis Stafford to the presidency of the Pontifical Council for the Laity in the Vatican and on 4 April 1997 Charles Chaput was consecrated Archbishop of Denver.
264 - Mar 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Pope warns against priests in politics Political action the domain of the laity Immediately after referring to the overall obligation to participate in political action according to the Gospel John Paul IIs exhortation Ecclesia in America (see page 3) points out that nevertheless it will be necessary to keep in mind that activity in the political realm is part of the vocation and action of the lay faithful (n.
265 - Feb 1999 - Liturgy: Cardinal Ratzinger on the old and the new Mass, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
The average Christian considers it essential for the renewed liturgy to be celebrated in the vernacular and facing the people; that there be a great deal of freedom for creativity; and that the laity exercise an active role therein.
266 - Dec 1998 - Pope John Paul II calls for more 'balance' in the reformed liturgy, AD2000 Report
Here the Pope reminds us this does not mean that everyone does everything since this would lead to a clericalising of the laity and a laicising of the priesthood; and this was not what the Council had in mind.
267 - Aug 1998 - Pope's new Apostolic Letter puts theological dissenters on notice
Finally as in the early centuries of the Church when the great struggle over the definition of the nature of Christ was in full swing there is a vital role for laity in defending orthodoxy right down to the parish level.
268 - Apr 1998 - AD2000's tenth anniversary: an appraisal, Peter Westmore
the recent Vatican Instruction on the role of the laity in the ministry of the ordained priesthood.
269 - Mar 1998 - Vatican Instruction on the role of the laity is binding on Catholics, Peter Westmore
The challenge which now faces both the clergy and laity in Australia is to implement the Papal Instruction in both the letter and the spirit rather than simply allow it to gather dust as has occurred with earlier authoritative papally approved documents.
270 - Feb 1998 - Vatican Instruction addresses an 'inadequate theology' of priesthood, Fr Ephraem Chifley OP
In some places practices have grown up which have confused the role of the laity and that of the sacred ministry.
271 - Oct 1997 - Editorial: Church authority: where do religious orders stand?
) Sr Fiand observed that the laity are gradually assuming responsibility and taking ownership of the Church which she said was never meant to be elitist - we all share the same vocation through our baptism.
272 - Mar 1997 - Brisbane's Banyo seminary: zero recruits is 'not a cause for alarm', Michael Gilchrist
On the other hand priests are not presently assumed to be higher holier or better than the laity.
273 - Feb 1997 - The Catholic Church in Singapore: why is it strong and healthy?, Michael Barr
Turning to the Franciscan community its vitality is a testament not only to the spirit of St Francis and the example of the friars but also to the depth of devotion of the laity.
274 - Feb 1997 - The Catholic Church in Adelaide: Road to renewal? Or decline?, Michael Gilchrist
To bring back the priests who are married; Work within the system - only a matter of time before the laity emerge as leaders of the Church at the local level; Follow-up inclusivity communication empowerment outreach challenge; Opportunities for our pastors to refresh and to change with the times; Seminarians to spend time in those parishes where the priest(s) are really on the ball; Educate our people to a new way of thinking; Dispel the myths of an outdated Church; Liturgical education reform; Parish - inclusive nature reach out non-judgementally; Empower people to own or live their faith - Basic Ecclesial Communities?
275 - Aug 1996 - Oxford Declaration on Liturgy: intentions of Vatican II 'frustrated', Christopher Quinn
One of the stated purposes of the conference was to enable priests and laity to pray and reflect together on the purpose of the Mass and on what precisely the great liturgical reform initiated by the Second Vatican Council has so far achieved and failed to achieve.
276 - Jul 1996 - Father Joseph Fessio's lecture tour of Australia, Mark First
The Adoremus Society for the Renewal of the Sacred Liturgy took its inspiration from Pope John Paul lls Apostolic Letter on the 25th Anniversary of the Liturgy Constitution (1989) and has as its principal activities in the US: provision of sound liturgical materials to priests and faithful desirous of a more reverent traditional liturgy; provision of educational materials to aid in the rediscovery of the beauty holiness and the power of the Churchs rich liturgical tradition; assistance to bishops and the Holy See with scholarly analysis and where necessary critique of present and proposed liturgical practices; publication of the monthly bulletin; the building of popular support (among priests and laity) for a new liturgical movement.
277 - May 1996 - Books: 'Redefining The Church: Vision and Practice', Richard Lennan ed, Fr Ephraem Chifley OP
This author asks why we should exchange an old clericalism for a new one and cites instances of Church professionals who with the best of intentions seem to restrict the participation of the simple laity in Church projects.
278 - Mar 1996 - New Vatican document vindicates concerns about classroom sex education
But those who are to help parents in this area (146): must be mature persons of a good moral reputation faithful to their own Christian state of life married or single laity religious or priests.
279 - Feb 1996 - Editorial: When - if ever - will the Church act to safeguard her authority?, B.A. Santamaria
The Sydney Morning Herald of December 15 1995 reported the President of the Australian Catholic Theological Association as publicly accusing the Vatican of attempting to theologically bully the clergy and the laity into acceptance of the teaching declared in the Popes Apostolic Letter.
280 - Nov 1995 - Post-conciliar renewal? Some Queensland snapshots, Michael Gilchrist
Memoriale Domini concluded: The Apostolic See therefore emphatically urges bishops priests and laity to obey carefully the law Communion on the tongue which is still valid and which has again been confirmed .
281 - Sep 1995 - Saints and heroes: where the difference lies, Lawrence Cross
Indeed when the people of the Church in those first thousand years discerned the presence of the saint in their midst and with their pastors instituted the cultus of that saint they were expressing an aspect of the much neglected infallibility of the laity the infallibility of the Church in its most popular expression.
282 - Mar 1995 - Leonid Federov (1879-1935): Russian Catholicism - a brave vision unfulfilled, Fr Peter Knowles OP
Thus far only a handful of priests and laity had joined the Eastern Rite Catholic Church but despite the paucity of numbers it was the obligation of the Exarch to guide and advise them - they were widely scattered over this vast land and with the onset of the omnipresent Communist rule and its tactics of persecution and terrorisation were living on borrowed time.
283 - Sep 1994 - Gregorian Chant makes a comeback, Simon Matthews
The monks of Silos and Fontgombault the Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge and the numerous clergy and laity who sing the chant around the world would all agree: Gregorian Chant is not just an interest or a hobby but an integral part of the fabric of the Churchs liturgical heritage which Vatican II called upon the Church .
284 - Aug 1994 - Editorial: Now that the rebellion is in the open - what?, B.A. Santamaria
Nevertheless the falling away from the most fundamental Catholic teachings whether in the field of doctrine or morals has been palpable - among a not inconsiderable number of bishops priests and laity.
285 - Jun 1994 - Fr Hubert Jedin's 1968 'Letter to the German Bishops', Fr Hubert Jedin
Mindful of the admonition of the Second Vatican Council about the co-responsibility of the priests and laity I feel obliged in conscience to offer my knowledge and understanding so that evaluative categories will not be lacking to the venerable episcopate; for what life-experience is to individuals the history of the Church is for the ecclesial community.
286 - Mar 1994 - The new Catechism and Cardinal Newman, Archbishop Eric D'Arcy
As Newman said: I want a laity .
287 - Oct 1993 - Eucharistic adoration - are we keeping up with the rest of the world?, Christine McCarthy
Yes the laity do want to make a sacrifice.
288 - Sep 1993 - Lincoln, Nebraska - how to fill seminaries with vocations, Fr T.I. Thorburn
Bruskewitz and by his predecessors and the co-operation of his clergy religious and laity.
289 - Jun 1993 - US opposition to ICEL changes intensifies, AD2000 Report
Bishops to give the ICEL texts the most serious and conscientious scrutiny alerted to the impact on the spiritual well-being of their priests religious and laity.
290 - Feb 1993 - The dimming of the 'vision splendid': religious life in distress, Sr Mary Augustine Lane OP
This idea stems from the pervasive influential and often warped concept of the post-Vatican II era of the age of the laity.
291 - Sep 1992 - Crises in the Church: Fr Hubert Jedin's warning to Rome
Democratisation of the Church is a controversial slogan which can have a valid meaning especially when it means that those who hold authority - the Pope bishops parish priests - are more willing than before to listen to the people of God and they cultivate contacts the laity and seek their collaboration.
292 - May 1992 - Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy: has ecumenism lost its way?, Fr Peter Knowles OP
The bishops were the first to be arrested and deported further into the USSR: priests and laity who would not conform were constantly hounded and many ended their lives in the Gulag.
293 - Apr 1992 - Problems of modern Biblical scholarship, B.A. Santamaria
But with many seminary professors and seminarians nuns brothers and moderately well-educated laity his doubts concerning the validity of Scripture sources are easily read as doubts as to the validity of the Catholic truths themselves.
294 - Feb 1992 - Authority - Yes, Authoritarianism - No, David Quinn
In placing greater importance on the role of the laity and the study by the laity of Scripture it embraced aspects of the Reformation which should have been embraced at Trent and made these too part of the heritage we can pass onto future generations.
295 - Feb 1992 - The Pope's agenda - overcoming the obstacles, Michael Gilchrist
For the past 25 years a form of pseudo-renewal allegedly based on Vatican II has afflicted the Church to the point of creating in places internal schisms accompanied by such aberrations as religious indifferentism (one religion as true as another) liturgical adventurism a doctrinally weak and vacuous catechesis a this world emphasis for Catholicism a democratic rather than a hierarchical Church a downgrading of individual sin (and regular confession) doctrinal and moral pluralism blurred distinctions between the ordained priesthood and the laity a weakening of papal authority a demythologised Scripture the sidelining of Marian devotions the stripping of church interiors and so on.
296 - Dec 1991 - New Zealand: 'transforming the Church from within', John Kennedy OBE
which presses the case for preaching at Mass by nuns and laity.
297 - Nov 1991 - NCC Anniversary: National Civic Council 50th anniversary celebration, 7 October 1991 - address, Bishop George Pell
Recently it has been suggested that the key to explaining the 1987 reorganisation of justice development and peace activities in our Church is a clericalist vision that the bishops can welcome the laity participating as troops but not as leaders.
298 - Oct 1991 - The priesthood: one layman's view, B.A. Santamaria
Visible demoralisation Some years ago the Pontifical Commission for the Laity selected a group of priests and laymen who met in Rome to discuss the Document on the Laity which was to be considered by the International Synod of Bishops in 1987.
299 - Aug 1991 - New Zealand Catholicism to put on Maori clothing?, John Kennedy OBE
Secondly the laity now find deference to things Maori liturgically and otherwise a feature at any gathering of any consequence.
300 - Jun 1991 - Richard John Neuhaus interviewed, Mary Arnold
Yet some of the American bishops disagree openly with papal teachings or they act in ways which confuse the laity as happened recently when the Bishop of Sacramento caused controversy by honouring the pro-abortion Governor inside his cathedral.
301 - Jun 1990 - Being a Catholic in 1990: Rev James Murray interviews Bob Santamaria, James S. Murray
In past conversations this doyen of the Catholic laity has admitted to sorrow at the loss of the Latin in the Mass both liturgically and culturally.
302 - Mar 1990 - New Zealand: tensions between Rome and the Bishops, John Kennedy OBE
The surge of the laity which has followed the synods has left many priests shaken.
303 - Feb 1990 - 'Holland of the Pacific'?: Catholicism in New Zealand, John Kennedy OBE
Not the least of them is a basically sound laity.
304 - Feb 1990 - Books: Archbishop Oscar Romero: a modern martyr - 'Romero: a Life', by James Brockman, Paul Gray
No Masses were held in the parishes and the laity were urged to attend a commemorative Eucharist at the San Salvador cathedral.
305 - Feb 1990 - Cardinal Newman: a centenary tribute, Dr Frank Mobbs
We are Church meaning We laity and not the Pope and bishops are going to run the Church is the latest in modern catchcries.
306 - Oct 1989 - Catholicism at the crossroads, Michael Gilchrist
This culminated in a meeting at Santa Maria College on Pentecost Sunday 1989 with an assembly of 600 laity priests and religious which in turn broke up into 62 groups and in just one hour discussed no fewer than 400 issues thought to be important to the Archdiocese.
307 - Sep 1989 - Three problems for Catholic schools, Michael Gilchrist
In the meantime interested laity religious and clergy might identify existing materials likely to match the Universal Catechism which will cover in detail the doctrines of the Creeds the moral teachings of the Ten Commandments and the Sacraments and Liturgy.
308 - Sep 1988 - Decline and fall of the Catholic priesthood, Gary Scarrabelotti
The differences between priests and people are abolished by a fusion of clergy with laity.
309 - May 1988 - Cardinal Ratzinger: defender of the Faith, Andrew Greenwich
The practising Catholic laity come into contact with this regularly.
310 - Dec 1987 - about: About AD2000
the strengthening of orthodoxy through John Paul IIs leadership the leadership of new bishops the rise of new movements in the Church and the consolidation of a determined laity are what constitute the beginning of a revival.