Try to define a layperson without using the word not: cannot preach
or say mass, is not a priest, is not in a position of leadership in
the church. This generally negative or passive understanding of the
laity was epitomized in a statement of Pope Pius X: The one duty of
the multitude [i.e., the laity] is to allow themselves to be led
and, like a docile fl ock, to follow the Pastors. The Second
Vatican Council, with its emphasis on the priesthood of all
believers rooted in baptism, changed all that. Yet, writes Paul
Lakeland, many of our bishops and not a few of the lay members of
the church are attracted to a dangerously incomplete vision of
Catholicism...one that sidesteps the major themes and key insights
of Vatican II. In Catholicism at the Crossroads, he teases out
themes fi rst developed in a much more formal way in his
prize-winning The Liberation of the Laity. In his new book he is
talking to ordinary Catholics in language that requires no special
expertise in theology and does not necessitate constant reference
to a dictionary. Baptism, says Lakeland, not priestly ordination,
is the basis for all mission and ministry, and the mission of those
baptized into Christ is to be the sacrament of God's love in a
world rife with violence and brutal inequity. The specifi c mission
of the laity is to the world, whereas the mission of the clergy is
to the household of the faith. Yet lay people can't leave church
business exclusively to the clergy, and the clergy can't leave the
church's worldly mission exclusively to the laity. The key to
resolving these overlapping responsibilities is by becoming an
adult church, an open church in an open society. In pursuing this
goal, Lakeland develops ten steps toward a more adult church. Try
to define a layperson without using the word not: cannot preach or
say mass, is not a priest, is not in a position of leadership in
the church. This generally negative or passive understanding of the
laity was epitomized in a statement of Pope Pius X: The one duty of
the multitude [i.e., the laity] is to allow themselves to be led
and, like a docile fl ock, to follow the Pastors. The Second
Vatican Council, with its emphasis on the priesthood of all
believers rooted in baptism, changed all that. Yet, writes Paul
Lakeland, many of our bishops and not a few of the lay members of
the church are attracted to a dangerously incomplete vision of
Catholicism...one that sidesteps the major themes and key insights
of Vatican II. In Catholicism at the Crossroads, he teases out
themes fi rst developed in a much more formal way in his
prize-winning The Liberation of the Laity. In his new book he is
talking to ordinary Catholics in language that requires no special
expertise in theology and does not necessitate constant reference
to a dictionary. Baptism, says Lakeland, not priestly ordination,
is the basis for all mission and ministry, and the mission of those
baptized into Christ is to be the sacrament of God's love in a
world rife with violence and brutal inequity. The specifi c mission
of the laity is to the world, whereas the mission of the clergy is
to the household of the faith. Yet lay people can't leave church
business exclusively to the clergy, and the clergy can't leave the
church's worldly mission exclusively to the laity. The key to
resolving these overlapping responsibilities is by becoming an
adult church, an open church in an open society. In pursuing this
goal, Lakeland develops ten steps toward a more adult church.
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