THE term is not quite right — empowerment, because it supposes that the laity must be given power. But theological reality is that they have power. They are members of the Church, distinct, it is true, from the clergy, but empowered not by the clergy but by Christ, the founder of the Church.
And because we should be busy dismantling the two-storied building that history has erected, with the clergy occupying the upper tier and the laity, contenting themselves with the lower story, then it is only right that we recognize that the laity are assigned tasks and functions and granted power in the Church distinct from those of the clergy.
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