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Faithful and Laity in the Church

Faithful and Laity in the Church

The Bases of their Juridical Status
Blessed Álvaro del Portillo
284
6 x 9
ISBN: 978-2-89689-061-3
Hardcover
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Excerpt from the Foreword: 

The origin of this book in an extensive votum presented, in 1966, to the Consultors of the Pontifical Commission for the Revision of the Code of Canon Law [...] to examine for the first time the possible text of the canon on the rights and duties of the lay faithful in the Church [...].  In that opinion, which was to have a decisive influence on the preparation of the project for the new ecclesiastical legislation, del Portillo grappled resolutely with a problem which had been very much at the fore in the work of the recently-concluded Second Vatican Council:  that of the theological-canonical meaning of two concepts - faithful and lay person - which were often used interchangeably in ecclesiastical parlance but which differed from each other from an ontological perspective.  

Cardinal Julian Herranz
President Emeritus of
the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts