' PERTH, WA: July 2, 1987
Number 2538
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Archbishop Foley last wee features
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glass window of the college
They also
ave t e "duty of helping them perform the tasks
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proper to ( he laity) in the C urch and eart ly city."
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They are called to do so by Vatican I.
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The laity, says the document,
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are "in t e very place where t e interaction between he C urch and the world is most visible and concrete."
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B t "in the present worl , the situ tion of the laity is certainly not easy."
VATICA
It wo Id be "most beneficial" if the laity reached a level of form tio as Christians, w ich corresponds to the level of their cultural surroundings in the world.
in prayer servic s n poss1bl d1stnbut Communion using pr viouslv consecrated host . 'This form of eel r t1 does not repl ce the ass, but should ma e ,t more desired," the pope said in a talk to m mbers of he Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship
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last week Sunbury d10· �se announced t par· ishes would be s rved b priests in neighbouring parishes.
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PRICE 60C
A ''working document" or t e bis ops who will a t e world Sy od on he Lai y in Oc o e els t e they have " he du y of recog is·ng a d prom ting in a practical way e aity's dignity a responsibi i y."
Lumen
Christ,
Word-wide reports on Chu ch actions for separated and divorced couples and on marriage. Pope John Paul's statement from Rome on marriage and its sanctity. See page 4.
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That mi sion and the lay vocation, "is from God." The bishops should therefore be concerned about providing the laity with o portunity for coni nu i ng formation as Christians, enabling them to r spond "to their social, economic and political responsibilities in a Christian spirit." Bu "many laity, women and men, generously assume the ta of forming" other , too. They "des rve as urances" of
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