WelCom May 2024
Twenty-seven preachers and theologians from North America, Europe and Asia have asked the Church to change Canon Law to allow qualified lay preachers to preach the homily at Mass to ‘reflect a synodal Church more fully’. In a proposal sent to the US bishops and the Synod of Synodality in Rome, the theologians urged the Church to expand the instituted ministries of Lector and Catechist so that a more extensive range of qualified lay preachers can preach on the Word of God at the Eucharist. The theologians also proposed that a new ministry of Lay Preachers should be instituted to allow the laity to deliver homilies at Mass.