mains

Question 1

A special gift of the Holy Spirit that helps us build up the Church, Christ’s Body. Some of these gifts are the ability to express wisdom and knowledge, healing, prophecy, and discernment of spirits.

Answer 1

Charism

Question 2

All the members of the Church who have been initiated into the Church through Baptism and who are not ordained (the clergy) or in consecrated life. The laity participate in Jesus’ prophetic, priestly, and kingly ministries.

Answer 2

laity

Question 3

The official, sacred leadership in the Church made up of the Church’s ordained ministers-bishops, priests, and deacons. The symbol of unity and authority in the Church is the Pope, the Bishop of Rome, who is the successor of St. Peter.

Answer 3

hierarchy

Question 4

The movement, inspired and led by the Holy Spirit, that seeks the union of all Christian religions and eventually the unity of all peoples throughout the world.

Answer 4

ecuminism