Ministry or Apostolate: What Should the Catholic Laity Be Doing?

While lay participation is a good thing, Russell Shaw argues that we've forgotten the crucial distinction between ministry (what we do inside the Church) and apostolate (what we do in the secular world). We've almost completely neglected the lay apostolate, he says, and that serious, dangerous mistake has gravely handicapped the Church in its work of evangelising culture.

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