Catholic lay organisations
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A Catholic lay association, also referred to as Catholic Congress, is an association of lay Catholics aiming to discuss certain political or social issues from a Catholic perspective.[1]
The
Third Orders
.
Some of the best known Catholic Lay Associations are
Knights of Malta, the Piusverein in Germany and Switzerland, Azione Cattolica in Italy and the UK-based Catholic Truth Society
.
There are also lay Catholic
Catholic Association of Performing Arts (UK)
, and the Catholic Actors Guild of America.
List of Catholic lay organisations
This is a list of organisations covering Catholic laity. It aims to list ecclesial movements of unspecified standing. For international Catholic movements that have received official approval by the Catholic Church, see Directory of International Associations of the Faithful.
- Apostolate for Family Consecration, founded in the US in 1975 by Jerry and Gwen Conker
- Movimento Apostolico, a lay organization founded in Catanzaro, Italy, on 3 November 1979 by Maria Marino Marraffa. Archbishop Antonio Cantisani and the Calabrian Bishops Conference have approved it statutes. Now it is suppressed.[3]
- Catholic Charismatic Renewal, with around 70 million Roman Catholics worldwide active in the movement, founded in the US in 1967 among college students.
- Catholic Worker Movement: Founded in the US in 1933 by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, this movement works for peace and the equal distribution of goods.
- Madonna House Apostolate, founded in Canada in 1947 by Catherine Doherty as a community of priests and laypersons has established missionary field houses worldwide.
- National Black Catholic Congress, founded in the United States in 1987 as a successor to the Colored Catholic Congress founded a century earlier by Daniel Rudd.
- World Movement of Christian Workers (WMCW), an international association similar to the Catholic Worker Movement, recognized by the Catholic Church.
Union of Prayer
Union of Prayer was a previous term for some
lay ecclesial movements.[4]
They tended to be
archconfraternities aiming at the conversion of various groups to Catholicism.[4]
Some of these included:
- Association of Prayer and Penitence in honour of the Heart of Jesus - offering reparation for outrages against the Catholic Church and the pope
- Archconfraternity of Our Lady of Compassion for the Return of England to the Catholic Faith
- Our Lady of Compassionfor the Conversion of Heretics
- Our Lady of the Assumption
See also
References
- ^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- ^ "International Associations of the Faithful, Directory - Pontifical Coucils for the Laity". www.vatican.va.
- ^ "Vatican suppresses Italy-based lay movement founded by alleged visionary". Crux. 30 June 2021. Retrieved 2023-04-25.
- ^ a b Brown, C.F. Wemyss. "Unions of Prayer." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 30 Dec. 2014