The clericalization of the laity (or its supposed ‘elites’) is particularly harmful for women, whose greatest contribution to the Church—motherhood, physical or spiritual—has been cast into the shade.
POPE FRANCIS TO CONFER NEW LAY MINISTRIES FOR FIRST TIME IN ST. PETER’S BASILICA
The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will confer the ministries of catechist, lector, and acolyte upon lay men and