Articles on this issue "laity"
The president of the Vatican's council for interreligious dialogue says that politics can be a path to holiness, but that one has to enter public service without seeking anything in return. …
read moreBenedict XVI appointed Helen Alvare, a law professor at the Catholic University of America, as a consultor for the Pontifical Council for the Laity. Alvare was appointed to the council for a …
read moreThe president of the Pontifical Council of the Laity encouraged religious brotherhoods and confraternities in Spain to tend toward "ecclesial maturity." Cardinal-designate Stanislaw Rylko said …
read moreHere is a reflection on the laity published this week by the Cardinal Van Thuân International Observatory for the Social Doctrine of the Church. It has been presented in preparation for an …
read moreThe laity are on the front lines and irreplaceable in the work of evangelization, said Archbishop Stanislaw Rylko. The president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity made this statement …
read moreBenedict XVI recently named Jean-Luc Moens to the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, the Vatican dicastery that oversees the Church's charitable activities. Moens has served as president of FIDESCO, …
read moreHere is an adapted version of a biography of Blessed George Preca (1880-1962), which was published by the Holy See. Benedict XVI will canonize the priest on Sunday. * * * BLESSED GEORGE PRECA …
read moreThe World Union of Catholic Women's Organizations has received the status of a public international association of the faithful under canon law. The Pontifical Council for Laity made the …
read moreLay people are longing for holiness, Benedict XVI told the bishops of the Piedmont region of Italy. The Pope said this today when receiving pilgrims from this region, who were accompanying …
read moreHere is a translation of a commentary by the Pontifical Household preacher, Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, on the readings from this Sunday's liturgy. * * * Fishers of men Fifth Sunday …
read moreHere is the description of the Lay Claretian Movement which appears in the Directory of International Associations of the Faithful, published by the Pontifical Council for the Laity. * * * …
read moreHere is a translation of the Angelus address Benedict XVI gave today from the window of his study to the crowds gathered in St. Peter\'s Square. * * * Dear Brothers and Sisters: Proclaimed …
read moreU.S. bishops will vote on a document to guide the roles and functions of lay ecclesial ministers in the Church at the prelates\' fall meeting in Washington, Nov. 14-17. \"Co-Workers in the …
read moreHere is the address John Paul II prepared for his address Saturday to the bishops of the U.S. ecclesiastical provinces of Louisville, Kentucky; Mobile, Alabama; and New Orleans, Louisiana. He …
read moreArchbishop Michael Miller, secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education, delivered an address last month on the Second Vatican Council declaration "Nostra Aetate" at the Lay Center at …
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