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4 unusual facts about Catholic laity


Catholic laity

The 1983 Code of Canon Law included a new section: BOOK II: THE PEOPLE OF GOD (Canons 204-746).

The 1983 Code of Canon Law does not permit the Laity to have any kind of executive or juridical powers in Ecclesiastical affairs.

The recipient of Talbot’s utterances was the then Archbishop of Westminster Henry Edward Manning.

One of the best known in England is the London-based Daily Telegraph blog run by the journalist Damian Thompson.



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Cyrillus Jarre

He opposed the formation of state-sanctioned Christian churches in China (Three-Self Patriotic Movement) and supported the Legion of Mary, an association of Catholic laity that was viewed as reactionary organization by the communists.

Gabrielle Bossis

Gabrielle Bossis (1874–1950) was a French Catholic laywoman, actress and mystic, best known for her mystical journal published as "He and I".

Laurence Sheil

Prompted by these events, a group of Catholic laymen wrote to Cardinal Alessandro Barnabò, Prefect of the Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith in Rome.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chihuahua

Because of the laws promulgated by the liberal government of President Benito Juárez, the Constitution of 1857 and the Mexican Revolution, which, taken together, had the effect of disenfranchising the Catholic clergy and large swaths of Catholic laity, studying for the priesthood became a difficult proposition for candidates in Chihuahua, and, indeed, in all of Mexico.