Are laypeople permitted to interfere in the matters of the Church?
Introduction
Can the laity (the
members of the Church who are not
ordained into the priesthood) involve itself in matters of the Faith? Can laypeople who are not empowered to
officiate in Sacraments of the Church censure Bishops when those Bishops
deviate from the truth? How justified are they who maintain an indifferent stance behind the backs of
their Priests and Spiritual Fathers when the teaching and the Faith of the
Church are being distorted, with the excuse that their Leaders and their
Spiritual Fathers likewise do not witness and confess the truth of Orthodoxy
because "they have undergone something
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