Rev. Komanchak:

http://publicaffairs.cua.edu/RDSpeeches/99Ecclesiology.cfm

There is never a Church except within and as a response to a world, a response that alters the world, so that the genesis of the Church is no more intelligible without reference to that world than an individual's conversion is intelligible apart from the drama of his own personal existence.

 And this, in turn, will require us to take far more seriously and far more rigorously into account that the Church whose inner nature we gratefully confess as God's gift and whose historic mission we undertake as our task is a Church 99% of whose members are lay people. We need to explore more fully and more consistently the implications of this fact for the various levels of our discourse about the Church, that is, when we say what the Church is, what it believes, what it does, what it ought to be. Newman's quip about the laity, that "the Church would look foolish without them," has profound ecclesiological implications.