Laity meaning the people in the pews or laity meaning "professional Catholic" parish staff and paid busybodies.  If it's the latter, forget it!

They're not all bad, but the stories of a Director of Religious Education choosing inadequate materials that don't teach the faith when the laity want their children to learn solid Catholicism, or a music director who refuses to do what the Church is explicitly asking for fear of complaints from a few baby boomers, or elderly parish paid-help conspiring against young or young-at-heart priests who preach challenging sermons and re-Catholicise Sunday Mass are  all too common.