Nuncio Emeritus warns against clericalization of lay people

(Katholisch).

The Swiss cardinal and former apostolic nuncio to Italy and San Marino, Emil Paul Tscherrig , warns against replacing ordained priests with a kind of lay priesthood. This often leads to tensions. “The priest has his task, the laity theirs: only in the cooperation and complementarity of these two vocations are we the church, as the Second Vatican Council taught us,” emphasized the nuncio emeritus on Monday in an interview with the Internet portal ” kath.ch”. The church is a people on the move and must constantly deal with the changes in the world. 

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