Catholicism at the Crossroads

Try to define a layperson without using the word not: cannot preach or say Mass is not in a leadership position in the church. The Second Vatican Council with its emphasis on the priesthood of all believers rooted in baptism changed all that. Yet writes Paul Lakeland many of our bishops and not a few of the lay members of the church are attracted to a dangerously incomplete vision of Catholicism...one that sidesteps the major themes and key insights of Vatican II. Teasing out ideas first developed in his prize-winning The Liberation of the Laity Lakeland develops ten steps toward a more adult church.