This article is not intended to encourage treatment of illness, disease, or other medical
problems by the layman.
Not exact matches
This is for two reasons: first, the minister
by the detachment of his vocation knows less about the
layman's
problems than
laymen do; and second, such groups too easily run into one more discourse to which
by long conditioning it is customary to listen passively without being very much stirred to action.
If
laymen have been encouraged to do this
by a core group, and if they share their
problems and receive advice in conversation with other members, this too is deployment.
There is abundant evidence that Catholics in this country do sincerely believe in democracy and practice this belief, but I do not see how they themselves can deny that their polity poses a
problem for democracy that is not posed
by churches which make their decisions in regard to public policy
by processes of open discussion in which both clergy and
laymen share.
by laymen who have neither the acumen to understand the
problem nor the courage to accept that it is real.