What does it really mean to be a minister, and does that include mothers? In this video, Dr. Kathryn Rombs discusses the Catholic Church’s teaching on the common priesthood of the faithful, unpacking how every baptized Christian participates in the one priesthood of Jesus Christ in an irreplaceable way.

Drawing on Pope Leo XIV’s audience on Lumen Gentium and St. Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae, we dive into why ministry is not just for clergy or paid church workers — and why the essential form of ministry is worship itself.

What you’ll learn:

• The difference between the ordained priesthood and the common priesthood of the baptized
• What Lumen Gentium says about both priesthoods being “mutually ordered”
• How Thomas Aquinas defined baptism as “deputing us to worship”
• Why everyday acts of prayer, self-denial, and charity are genuine ministerial acts
• How mothers (and all the faithful) exercise their spiritual power in daily life