Sentence examples for lay movement from inspiring English sources
In Germany and Austria there is a strong lay movement calling for liberalisation of the church.
Until recently historians, including historians of culture and religion, showed little interest in this lay movement as an independent development.
Frassati Societies are a young adult lay movement that are getting started and growing around the world.
New Kōmeitō, English New Clean Government Party, formerly Kōmeitō, Japanese political party that was founded in 1964 as the political wing of the Buddhist lay movement Sōka-gakkai.
Primarily a middle-class, democratic lay movement espousing a Christian life of love, piety, devotion, and holiness, the Friends of God presaged the 16th-century Reformation.
YMCA, in full Young Men's Christian Association, nonsectarian, nonpolitical Christian lay movement that aims to develop high standards of Christian character through group activities and citizenship training.
In Western Christendom, an iconoclastic attitude was again expressed in various medieval lay movements and sects.
In recent years lay movements like hers gained increasing influence in the church and among popes.
Still, many bishops are suspicious that what the new lay movements really want is a wholesale revolution that would overthrow the hierarchy and the doctrine.
And last but not least, it was home to the lay movements-the spontaneous hermits and Wanderprediger with their followings, the beguines and beghards, and in the late Middle Ages the men and women of the Modern Devotion.
The Sant'Egidio Community is one of a number of new lay movements that have emerged to fill gaps opened by the extensive changes in Roman Catholicism's devotional and organizational life after the Second Vatican Council.
