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Ministerial juridic person: the growing role for laity in canonical sponsorship of Catholic health care.

Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council and its release of the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, that universal call to holiness resounds in the life of the Catholic health ministry in the United States. And the “fruits of grace,” those gifts of the Holy Spirit, are vitally evident in a growing reality: that of laypeople accepting and performing the role of canonical sponsor of the health care apostolate. In fact, this growing movement into stewardship of the Catholic health ministry by the laity, codified by the Vatican’s formal assignment — what is known canonically as “concession” — of juridic personality to entities directed by groups of laypeople, follows a trajectory that reaches back to the council. Thus, in the U.S. health care ministry today, the seeds sown by Vatican II are rooted, growing and maturing. This growing leadership role for the laity in Catholic health ministry is not merely the effect of the diminished number of religious. Rather, it is a specific affirmation of the vocation that all Christians share to witness to the Gospel by deeds of love and service in the world and within the church. Pope Francis has reminded the church, recalling the teaching of the Second Vatican Council, that all the lay faithful “are protagonists in the work of evangelization and human promotion” by virtue of their baptism. Speaking at a March 2014 conference on the laity, he said, “Incorporated in the church, each member of the People of God is inseparably a disciple and a missionary.”