“If the condition of a totally incapacitated pope goes on for months or even years, it’s clear that this creates great harm for the church and the good of its souls,” said Boni, who is one of the initiative’s organizers. “We need norms that identify the people or organisms to de...
Leadership within the Roman Catholic Church is at a point where change is unfolding, in spite of resistance among members of the hierarchy and sects within the faithful. The traditional leadership model, consisting primarily of ordained male clergy, is slowly being transformed to include laity, and...
Lay believers are in the front line of Church life; for them the Church is the animating principle of human society. Therefore, they in particular ought to have an ever-clearer consciousness not only of belonging to the Church, but of being the Church (CCC, 899). The laity act prophetica...
A Catholic bishop on Sunday called on the faithful to “be visible signs of hope” in a society where “the value of life is often trivialized.” Speaking at this year’s Walk for Life, Bishop Severo Caermare of Dipolog, chairman of the bishops’ Commission ...
Equally a church plant into an old building cannot replicate what used to be there. Archdeacon Simon Fisher from Liverpool noted that we are nowadays an ‘anxious church’, and clergy and laity are looking for clarity and simplicity when pastoral reorganisation is in the air: we will need a ...
—Liberal constructions of written documents are to be made, because of the simplicity of the laity, and with a view to carry out the intention of the parties and uphold the document; and words ought to be made subservient, not contrary, to the intention. Nimia subtilitas in jure repro...
Though, as I was voting, I was reminded of a question on a comedy quiz show –“Is the Pope Catholic?” Their angle was that “Pope” wasn’t an official name or job title in the Catholic Church, but that it was so for the patriarch of one of the eastern churches and therefore “...
Parochial Church CouncilOffice Holders Representatives in the Deanery Synod: Wendy Paxman Humphrey Reynolds Representatives of the Laity: Wendy Paxman John Larkin Hamish Reid Nigel Bird Shelley Smith Gill Bird Donna Boosey Ian Burgess Kathie Burgess (Deputy Warden) ...
According to the rule which obtained during the second Temple, all the skins of the most holy things belonged to the officiating priests--i.e., those of the trespass offering, the sin offerings of the laity, &c.--whereas those of the holy things--i.e., those of the peace offerings-...
So many Jews in that city also became servants of God in the Holy Faith.And for this reason, former popes and other leaders of the Church have advised that the Christian laity should also adore such painted icons of the Lord’s Passion and Death in the living rooms and bedrooms of their...