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Lay Ministers: A Case of
Misplaced Priorities

The bishops ought to be focusing on the things that lay people can do outside, not inside, church buildings.

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Confessions of a Frustrated
Lay Minister

I do everything from prepare the liturgy to process annulments--but I feel invisible in the Church.

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Memo to Lazy Lay Catholics: Wake Up

The activism has to start now. Catholics cannot remain passive and simply hope to pray their way to a healthier church.

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The Lay Contemplative
by Virginia Manss and Mary Frohlich
St. Anthony Messenger Press, 204 pages

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Chance for Change Amid Sex Scandal

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St. Gregory VII (1020-1085)

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Debate: Is Liberal Catholicism Dead?

What has happened to the radical changes that seemed to be an inevitable part of the Church's future?

Related Topics: Faiths, Catholic, Catholicism, Liberal, Liberal Catholicism, Peter Nixon, Church, intellectual energy, Lay movements, Commitment, Theology, call women

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Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep

Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Woman to Woman

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Extremists for Love

The Jain perspective on nonviolence.

Related Topics: Faiths, Jainism, Nonviolence, extremist, invisible microbes, Ahimsa, life forms, lay people, jains, life forms living, Life