Michael Sweeney, OP

Michael Sweeney, OP, is the Cofounder and Executive Director of the Lay Mission Project, which offers a comprehensive formation for lay Catholics in order to prepare them for the church’s mission ad-extra (laymission.net). In 1997 he cofounded the Catherine of Siena Institute and served from 2004–2015 as president of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, California.

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Beyond Personal Piety

We need to move beyond our inherited clericalism. The idea that the laity have no agency in the church is not magisterial teaching; it is not, in fact, true

By Michael Sweeney, OP

February 28, 2019

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