Catholic lay ministers: An alternative to a shortage of priests Published May 14, 2013 1:34 PM Alexander Garoutte, a senior at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, is one of a new ...

Joan Nugent held a Communion wafer in front of Watt Burton’s face, looking into his friendly eyes as she had done many times since he moved into the nursing home in Newport News, Va., six yea… ...

Lay ministers are emerging in strength to fill the void created by the declining ranks of the Catholic church’s celibate male clergy, visiting the sick, counseling the troubled and administering ...

St. Louis, Mo., Apr 25, 2023 / 14:50 pm. Pope Francis discussed his vision for lay ministry in the Church in an April 22 speech, noting that all baptized people are called to take part in the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Lay ministers are taking an ever-greater role in the Catholic Church in 21st-century America. Whether that role will be positive or negative is the subject of ongoing debate.

Spiritual care for hospital patients In fact, lay Eucharistic ministers give out Communion much more frequently than priests do. According to the Georgetown University-based research institute ...

According to the National Pastoral Life Center, there are 31,000 lay ecclesial ministers working in Catholic parishes in the United States today, surpassing the 29,000 diocesan priests in the country.

Of the 224 young Catholic women in formation and ministry in the U.S. who responded, 80% were dissatisfied with the ministry opportunities available to them in the global church, and 73% said the ...

Every other Wednesday, two men from Mary, Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Mandeville are sent to prison. Not by a judge, at least not one in a black robe, but by an even higher authority. The ...

The lay ministers were strangers with a common mission: helping gays and lesbians find peace within the Roman Catholic Church. There was the woman from Blue Island who, after coming out three ...

Pope Francis discussed his vision for lay ministry in the Church in an April 22 speech, noting that all baptized people are called to take part in the mission of the Church regardless of whether ...