The Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy, simply states that popular piety, “designates those diverse cultic expressions of a private or community nature which, in the context of the Christian faith, are inspired predominantly not by the Sacred Liturgy but by forms deriving from a particular nation or people or from their culture.” (
What is Popular Piety?
Very interesting and informative! That was something I did not know - thank you for sharing!