Christian spirituality: A missionary Church – why lay leaders matter

Last Monday, Cardinal Marc Ouellet , former prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, published a provocative piece titled “On lay people in positions of authority in the Roman Curia”. His intervention touches a raw nerve in a Church caught between the ‘rock’ of tradition – at risk of calcifying into nostalgia for what-has-always-been – and the ‘hard place’