Laymen Take on Parish Roles Amid Vatican II Reforms
Vatican II changes shift duties from priests to lay Catholics across 19011 parishes in the United States. Lay members may soon baptize marry and bury with bishop approval. Parish councils decide liturgy and hiring, reflecting increased parish influence and diverse responses to birth control and abortion debates.
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United States
Kathy Caola
Minneapolis
St. Stephen’s
Father
Eve Ar
Associated Press
National Opinion Research Center
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Laity gaining ground in American Catholic Church
Reform programs expand women's roles and lay ministries. Parishes like Nativity shift from priest-dominated staff to larger laity teams, with lay members distributing Communion and reading Scripture. Despite gains, many parish councils remain minor, while tensions with clergy persist. aging Catholics increasingly engage in Eucharistic ministry and parish life.
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Patricia Greis
Nativity
Greis
Andrew Greeley
National Opinion Research Center
Mary
Robert Johnson
National Federation of Priests Councils
Philip Murnion
Murnion
Charles Fahey
Fordham University
U.S
Nativity Parish Council
John Gilbert
Kathy Caola
Holy Spirit Church
Annandale
Missoula
Mont
Christ the King
Colin MacDonald
U.S. Catholic Conference
Extortionist demands Pope shooter freed in Orlandi case
ANSA reports an anonymous extortionist who seized 15 year old Emanuela Orlandi threatens to free her only if Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who shot Pope John Paul II, is released. The caller claimed contact with the Vatican and said authorities ignored the demand. Agca was convicted and given a life sentence for the 1981 assassination attempt in St. Peter's Square.
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Vatican
Pope John Paul II
ANSA
Emanuela Orlandi
Mehmet Ali Agca
Tacker
Agca
John Paul
St. Peter’s Square
Youths Taken From Church Camp After Death
Eleven children aged five to six from the House of Judah religious camp near South Haven Michigan were removed by ambulance for medical examination after a 12 year old boy died at the camp. Myrna McNitt of Allegan County Probate Court said the group including three girls and eight boys walked from mobile homes to ambulances for transport to an unidentified hospital due to external physical conditions including bruises. The scene was quiet and somber with no reported trouble at the compound.
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James Young
North American Conference of
Separated and Divorced Catholics
John Keller
Nativity
South Haven
Mich
House of Judah
Myrna McNitt
Allegan County Probate Court
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Lance
Here
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