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====Vatican II afterwards==== {{See also|Theology of Pope Francis#Clericalism}} In December 1977, "A Chicago Declaration of Christian Concern" was published. The declaration looked back a decade to the Vatican Council II with appreciation for its "compelling vision of lay Christians in society." As the Declaration interpreted it, the Council viewed the laity's "special vocation" as being the "leaven" for the "sanctification of the world" in their "secular professions and occupations". However, lamented the Declaration, the council's vision has "all but vanished" from the church. The Declaration was signed by forty-seven clergy, religious, and laity that included men and women in many occupations, and it served as the charter for the National Center for the Laity (NCL).<ref name="catholiclabor.org">{{Cite web |url=http://www.catholiclabor.org/NCL%20Inititiative/A%20Chicago%20Declaration.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-01-08 |archive-date=2016-02-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160221092829/http://www.catholiclabor.org/NCL%20Inititiative/A%20Chicago%20Declaration.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> The NCL helps lay Catholics respond to their call to change the world through their daily activities and regular responsibilities,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.catholicreview.org/article/work/working-families/national-center-marks-30-years-of-helping-catholic-laity.|title=Catholic Review - Archdiocese of Baltimore}}</ref> and it publishes a monthly online newsletter ''Initiatives: In Support of Christians in the World.''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.catholiclabor.org/NCL.htm |title= Initiatives: In Support of Christians in the World|website=www.catholiclabor.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109004343/http://www.catholiclabor.org/NCL.htm |archive-date=2015-01-09}}</ref> ''Initiatives: In Support of Christians in the World'' (January 2015) rejoiced that "50 Years since Vatican II" the increased [[lay ministry]] in parishes has "brought fresh vitality". However, the newsletter lamented "the neglect of formation for the lay apostolate in the world". Pope Francis is quoted as confirming this lament. Priests tend to "clericalize the laity" and view their ministry as only "within the Church," discounting their "workaday" ministry.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite web |url=http://www.catholiclabor.org/NCL%20Inititiative/Jan%2015.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-01-08 |archive-date=2015-01-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109003248/http://www.catholiclabor.org/NCL%20Inititiative/Jan%2015.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> From the start of his papacy Francis called for structural change in the Church which will foster the responsibility of the laity now held "at the edge of the decisions" by "excessive clericalism", and to "create still broader opportunities for a more incisive female presence in the Church". The "missionary transformation of the Church" is seen by some as "the goal of this pontificate",<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Pope:-A-missionary-and-pastoral-conversion-for-a-Church-open-to-changing-its-structures-29645.html|title=Pope: "A missionary and pastoral conversion" for a Church open to changing its structures|last=Pisano|first=Franco|date=November 26, 2013|website=www.asianews.it|access-date=2019-12-30|archive-date=2019-09-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925125919/http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Pope:-A-missionary-and-pastoral-conversion-for-a-Church-open-to-changing-its-structures-29645.html|url-status=live}}</ref> with all the baptized becoming "missionary disciples",<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0PGODwAAQBAJ&q=We+cannot+demand+that+peoples+of+every+continent%2C+in+expressing+their+Christian+faith%2C+imitate+modes+of+expression+which+European+nations+developed+at+a+particular+moment+of+their+history&pg=PT167|title=Go Forth: Toward a Community of Missionary Disciples|last=Francis|first=Pope|date=2019-06-26|publisher=Orbis Books|isbn=978-1-60833-787-3|language=en|access-date=2020-10-18|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429004835/https://books.google.com/books?id=0PGODwAAQBAJ&q=We+cannot+demand+that+peoples+of+every+continent%2C+in+expressing+their+Christian+faith%2C+imitate+modes+of+expression+which+European+nations+developed+at+a+particular+moment+of+their+history&pg=PT167|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=69m7DgAAQBAJ&q=pope+francis+and+the+missionary+impulse&pg=PA130|title=Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism: Evangelii Gaudium and the Papal Agenda|last=Mannion|first=Gerard|date=2017-04-24|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-13274-9|language=en|access-date=2020-10-18|archive-date=2021-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429003054/https://books.google.com/books?id=69m7DgAAQBAJ&q=pope+francis+and+the+missionary+impulse&pg=PA130|url-status=live}}</ref>
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