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Catholic laity are the ordinary members of the Catholic Church who are neither clergy nor recipients of Holy Orders or vowed to life in a religious order or congregation. Their mission, according to the Second Vatican Council, is to "sanctify the world". The laity forms the majority of the estimated over one billion Catholics in the world. [1]
Learn the church teachings, responsibilities and USCCB policies and initiatives that relate to Laity.
Laity (Gr. laos, “the people”; whence laikos, “one of the people”) means the body of the faithful, outside of the ranks of the clergy. This article treats the subject under three heads: (I) General Idea ; (2) Duties and Rights of the Laity; (3) Privileges and Restrictions of the Laity.
Jan 8, 2024 · A True State of Life. The ministerial priesthood, though it involves the power to define doctrine on the episcopal level, to govern the earthly Church and to consecrate the Eucharist, is only a means to the end of the holiness and consecration of all the faithful. The clergy are the means ordered to the end, which is the faithful.
Adopting something of the same approach here, we begin this examination of the role of the Catholic laity in the mission of the Church by taking a quick look at history. This overview will touch on a few highlights of a long, complex story stretching over two millennia. The Early Church
 The Council ratified and extended the contribution that, for more than a century, the movements of the Catholic laity have been offering to the Church, pilgrim and militant , Paul VI affirmed at the  Angelus of Sunday, 21 March 1971.(43) And John Paul II, in one of the first meetings of his Pontificate with the active forces of the ...
Home. Laity, Marriage, Family Life, & Youth. Church Teaching on the Laity. Vatican & Papal Statements. Benedict XVI, Message on the Occasion of the Sixth Ordinary Assembly of the International Form of Catholic Action (2012): on the "Co-responsibility" of the laity for the Church's being and acting.
