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 ...

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 ...

EWTN News, Inc. is the world’s largest Catholic news ... Pope Francis discussed his vision for lay ministry in the Church in an April 22 speech, noting that all baptized people are called ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

"I am a Catholic man working in lay ministry in an archdiocese in the United States. I lead a young adult group, serve as a lector and eucharistic minister, run eucharistic adoration, ...

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 ...

As a Catholic lay minister serving men on Florida’s death row for the past four years, I was deeply moved by Pope Francis’ announcement late last month that his September prayer intention ...