Catholic laity are the ordinary members of the Catholic Church who are neither clergy nor recipients of Holy Orders or vowed to life in a religious order...

In religious organizations, the laity (/ˈleɪəti/) consists of all members who are not part of the clergy, usually including any non-ordained members of...

questionnaire regarding the current opinions among the laity. He has also continued to assert present Catholic doctrine in less dramatic tone than his more direct...

social issues from a Catholic perspective. The Pontifical Council for the Laity is the body responsible for approving those Catholic associations that exist...

Emanuela Orlandi (born 14 January 1968) was a Vatican teenager who mysteriously disappeared while returning home from music school in Rome on 22 June 1983...

pension or flee the country. Many Catholic nuns went to France. Anglican religious orders are organizations of laity or clergy in the Anglican Communion...

Many Catholics have made significant contributions to the development of science and mathematics from the Middle Ages to today. These scientists include...

of conscience" and the importance of the laity in shaping church law. In October 1984, CFC (then Catholics for a Free Choice) placed an advertisement...

as an apostolic movement on the island of Mallorca, where a group of Catholic laity first developed the Cursillo in 1944. With participation unrestricted...

In the Catholic Church, a religious order is a community of consecrated life with members that profess solemn vows. They are classed as a type of religious...