“Vatican II will be remembered in history as the Council of the advancement of the laity in the Church,” commented one Council Father during the discussion of the Council’s document on the apostolate ...

A growing underground fire in a small diocese in New Mexico surfaced last year when the bishop tried to take over an assembly ...

The Catholic Church means everything to us. She’s our home, our resting place and our safe harbor in a world where morals and values come and go with the tide. She’s a sure tie that binds us to our ...

The Second Vatican Council presented alternative roles for believers, those who make up more than 99 percent of all Catholics. In it, the "docile flock" was redefined as the people of God. Lumen ...

Clergy sexual misconduct, the place of women in the church and issues of authority are all reasons for Roman Catholics to ask hard questions about their church. But according to Paul Lakeland, if ...

To the extent of their knowledge, competence or authority the laity are entitled, and indeed sometimes duty-bound, to express their opinions on matters concerning the good of the church.” It might ...

The charismatic Bishop Kenneth Untener once said, “What happened at Vatican II might be compared to the great plates shifting beneath the earth.” Its effects were “monumental.” Tectonic shifts do not ...

Q: We are sitting here in the offices of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life in the Vatican, and I would like to begin with the word 'laity'. There is a democratising tendency in contemporary ...

It was the kind of pep talk for the Catholic laity that would have been impossible to imagine a half century ago, especially in a setting like Philadelphia. Three solid-citizen Catholics, two of them ...

Pope Francis leads a session of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon at the Vatican in this Oct. 15, 2019, file photo. The pope has decided that the next general assembly of the Synod of Bishops will ...

Now a view from the pews as Catholics respond to the Church's new policy to remove abusing priests from the ministry: That plan adopted by the Conference of Catholic Bishops. At our Lady of Lourdes ...