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The Liberation of the Laity (Paperback)
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The present crisis in the American Catholic Church stems from a
two-fold source: lay people are powerless while the bishops are
accountable to no one but the pope and the curia. While the number
of lay people exercising ministries in the Church has grown
enormously over the past thirty years (largely due to the shortage
of priests), there has been little or no theological reflection
till now on the genuine role of the laity. It is only from such
reflection that structural reform of the Church will come. The
first half of The Liberation of the Laity concentrates on the
fortunes of the laity, theologically speaking, between Vatican I
(1870) and Vatican II (1962 - 65). It examines the growth of the
'new theology' in France in the 1940s and 1950s, and shows how in
the work of one of its leading practitioners, Yves Congar, much of
the vision of the laity expressed at Vatican II was anticipated.
Seeing the years after the council as decades of missed opportunity
to recognize the role of the laity, the book turns to a series of
constructive proposals for the liberation of the laity, and thus
the liberation of the Church. It discusses the importance of
'secularity,' the need for a 'lay liberation theology,' and the
centrality of the struggles against global capitalism in the
mission of the Church. It ends with a chapter envisioning dramatic
changes in ministry and governing structures, in which
accountability will be central, 'servant leaders' will include
women and married people, and both ecclesiastical careerism and the
College of Cardinals will be history.
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