[1] The Pontifical Council for the Laity is the body responsible for approving those Catholic associations that exist at an international level.
[2] The structure of some Religious Orders allow for Lay branches to be associated with them.
There are also lay Catholic guilds and associations representing a whole range of professions.
Union of Prayer was a previous term for some Roman Catholic lay ecclesial movements.
[4] They tended to be archconfraternities aiming at the conversion of various groups to Catholicism.