Orthodoxy & Dissent

Truth & the Need for Humility

Jerry Ryan January 28, 2013 - 11:08am

St. Pius X, in his encyclical Vehementer (1902), wrote: “By its very nature the church is a society of unequals; it is composed of two categories of persons: the pastors and the flocks. Only the hierarchy moves and directs...the duty of the flock is to let itself be governed and submissively carry out the orders of those who...

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Topics: 
Laity
Liturgy
Priesthood
Religious Life
Secularism and Modernity
Sexual-abuse Crisis
Vatican II
Laity
Liturgy
Priesthood
Religious Life
Secularism and Modernity
Sexual-abuse Crisis
Theology
Vatican II

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Jerry Ryan joined the Little Brothers of Jesus in 1959. He lived and worked with them for more than two decades in Europe and South America. He and his family now live in Massachusetts.

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