Chapter, Paragraph
1 1,14| through the framework of their secular life"(26).~Because the lay
2 1,15| The Lay Faithful and Their Secular Character ~15. The newness
3 1,15| this manner of life as the "secular character": "The secular
4 1,15| secular character": "The secular character is properly and
5 1,15| theological understanding of their secular character in light of God'
6 1,15| Church "has an authentic secular dimension, inherent to her
7 1,15| Church are sharers in this secular dimension but in different
8 1,15| designated with the expression "secular character"(32).~In fact
9 1,15| faithful's situation in the secular world, points to it above
10 1,15| is, in every one of the secular professions and occupations.
11 1,15| Synod Fathers said: "The secular character of the lay faithful
12 1,15| theological sense. The term secular must be understood in light
13 1,15| and distinguished by their secular character(40).~The images
14 1,17| family concerns nor other secular affairs should be excluded
15 1,17| such conditions (everyday secular conditions and the conjugal
16 3,36| faithful, by reason of their "secular character", obliging them,
17 4,55| women religious, members of secular institutes and the lay faithful.~
18 4,55| distinctive feature in its secular character. It fulfills an
19 4,56| flourishing of diverse forms of secular institutes that have developed
20 4,56| perfection those who live in the secular state"(207).~Along the same
21 5,59| the other, the so-called "secular" life, that is, life in
22 5,60| properly fulfilling their secular duties in the ordinary conditions
23 5,64| lay faithful through the "secular character" which is "uniquely
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