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_005195787	Paul VI, Pope, 1897-1978.	Setting up the Council on the laity and the Pontifical Commission for studies on justice and peace : January 6, 1967	1967		.txt	text/plain	1172	32	37	At the same time, the Council, wanting to establish a dialogue with the modern world, gave due attention to some of the major aspirations of the contemporary world, such as the problems of development, promotion of justice among nations and the cause of peace, proposing the institution of an organism in the Church, whose purpose should be to make the Catholic world more aware of those problems ( Gaudium et Spes, n. 90). In particular it shall: 1) Promote the lay apostolate at the international level and provide for its coordination and increasing integration in the gen- eral apostolate of the Church; maintain contact with the apostolate at the national level; act as a place of meeting and dialogue in the Church between the hierarchy and the laity, and between the dif- ferent forms of lay activity, in the spirit of the last pages of the Encyclical Ecclesiam Suam; promote international congresses for the lay apostolate; foster the faithful observance of the ecclesiastical laws concerning the laity; 2) Assist with its advice the hierarchy and the laity in their apostolic work ( Apostolicam Actuositatem , n. 26); 3) Promote studies for the further doctrinal clarification of questions concerning the laity, in particular as regards problems of the apostolate with special reference to the sharing of the laity in overall pastoral activity.	cache/_005195787.txt	txt/_005195787.txt