Add to ORKGThe author restricts himself in the present article to the message of the New Testament. His deductions can be especially interesting to the faithfUl who, in more recent time, feel sharply that the written documents of councils or synods do not draw the final line between the clerical and lay apostolate in the Church. The faithful still feel exposed to the attacks of importunate neoclericalism. The Gospel has never given preference to any order, system or régime in the past. Neither will the Gospel in the future, until the Last Judgement, incline to any one of them by proclaiming it as typically »Christian«. This is why those who assume a definitive, absolute, totalitarian character must be evaluated critically in the light of the Gospel. C...