South Bend, Ind., Nov 22, 2019 / 00:39 am
A professor at the University of Notre Dame has offered his reflections on lay leadership in the Church, in preparation for a conference on the subject, which will be held at the university next year.
Leadership in the Church should not be understood merely as the hierarchy, insisted John Cavadini, McGrath-Cavadini Director of the Institute for Church Life and a theology professor at the University of Notre Dame.
Rather, he said, all members of the Church, especially the laity, are called to be leaders in the New Evangelization.
This idea of lay leadership will be a major theme at the "Called & Co-Responsible" conference taking place at the University of Notre Dame March 4-6. The conference will analyze the call for lay leadership issued by popes over the last 65 years, ranging from Pope Paul VI in Vatican II to Pope Francis in Evangelii Gaudium.