The Role and Position of the Laity in the Catholic Church
Keywords:
Lay Race, Role, PositionAbstract
Pastoral ministry is not the exclusive property of the clergy but the laity are actively involved. Because everyone who has been baptized has the dignity of imami, rajawi and prophethood. So all believers, both Imam and Layman, have the same vocation but in different roles and positions without one surpassing and dominating the other. Each received the light of guidance from the one and the same Spirit. The Second Vatican Council understood the Church as an Organizational and juridical unity not only but rather as a unity of faith built together by all the Catholic faithful. The Church must be placed on the fact that its members are varied in everything but united in Jesus Christ.
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