Challenges of Catholic Men in the Church and the World

Abstract

The laity in the Church is composed of men, women and youths. Each contributes their own quota in both the Church and the world. The Catholic men, who are the focus of this paper seemed to be difficult to be organized. Their activities however are felt in various sectors of the Church as husbands, fathers, knights and officials of the church and also in the world as leading members of the decision making bodies of our traditional and civil institutions like the kindred, town union, Igwe-in-Council and government sectors. It is our concern to present the identity and rights of this group of the laity, the theatre for their operations and the challenges before them.