{"id":31256,"date":"2021-05-15T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T03:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldcatholicnews.com\/letter-from-rome-who-are-the-laity-in-a-church-of-priestly-people\/"},"modified":"2021-05-15T23:18:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T03:18:00","slug":"letter-from-rome-who-are-the-laity-in-a-church-of-priestly-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldcatholicnews.com\/letter-from-rome-who-are-the-laity-in-a-church-of-priestly-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from Rome: Who are the laity in a church of priestly people?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lots of people have been shouting Hosannas and singing Alleluias over the new “motu proprio”, Antiquum ministerium<\/em>.<\/p>\n “The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments will soon publish the Rite of Institution of the lay ministry of Catechist,” the pope says in the new document.<\/p>\n At first blush it would seem this innovation, as many are calling it, is something to truly celebrate. After all, the reformist pope’s creation of a new “lay ministry” would appear to be another nail in the coffin he’s been building for the death of clericalism.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n