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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]
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.
Laity. "Lay people, too, sharing in the priestly, prophetical and kingly office of Christ, play their part in the mission of the whole people of God in the Church and in the World." The Second Vatican Council, Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity, #2, 1965.
Jan 8, 2024 · To summarize his points: the laity, like all other members of Christ’s faithful, are baptized persons (sacramental aspect) who are thereby incorporated into Christ (Christian aspect) and made members of the Church (ecclesiological aspect) with the right and duty to participate actively in the mission of the Church (missionary aspect).
Laity, from the Greek word laos ("people"), is the name for the members of the Church who are not in Holy Orders. Today the term Christifideles laici (the lay members of Christ's faithful) is sometimes used.
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.
ÂÂ 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 militantÂÂ , Paul VI affirmed at the ÂÂ AngelusÂÂ of Sunday, 21 March 1971.(43) And John Paul II, in one of the first meetings of his Pontificate with the active forces of ...
