Two churches: fixed menu or a la carte? (teachings of the Catholic Church)(Column)

Commonweal | January 31, 1997| | Copyright

Last fall I wrote a speech for a college leadership conference on what it was like to be a layperson in the Catholic church for most of its history in this country. Perhaps I should have been prepared for the astonishment expressed at this reflection on the part of many of the audience. But it had not occurred to me that so many mature Catholics today do not know or remember a church in which the role of the laity was so minimal - to be a passive receiver of spiritual goods and services, on the one hand, and to support the good works of clergy and religious, on the other.

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