Meanings of catholic laity in English

In her post online she says: Catholic laity are generally understanding about priestly indiscretion.

The ceremony sealed a long campaign by Catholic laity to have its Spanish founder sanctified.

The Catholic laity have also been most active under the auspices of the Knights of Columbus.

A far tighter hold is kept, however, on the Roman Catholic laity in Ireland than in England.

Books are denied to the Catholic laity.

In the towns and cities, the Catholic laity, once admitted to commerce and the professions, rose rapidly to wealth and honour.

This isolation has been most prejudicial to our Catholic laity, for it has fostered in their ranks disinterestedness and often apathy.

If they have, they never will persuade any considerable number of Catholic laity in this country, in this nineteenth century, to follow them.

But, should not the Knights of Columbus, that body-guard of Catholic laity, be called to the honour of "seeing it through."

Catholic laity may attend the Tridentine Mass, if allowed under the terms of the 1984 instruction (indult) of Pope John Paul II.

Banal sermons and sometimes uninformed views from the pulpit made the church less credible before an increasingly educated Catholic laity, a leading theologian has said.

Never perhaps in Canada, has the absence of authoritative leadership, especially among the Catholic laity, been felt so keenly as at the present trying period.