Dr. Albert C. Outler, an official observer of the Vatican Council and professor at the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, will speak Monday, June 13, at Christ the King Cathedral Center. The lecture will be at 8 p.m.

His subject will be “Laity in the Protestant and Catholic Traditions.” He has been invited to give the lecture, which is open to the public, by the Archdiocese of Atlanta.

Active in ecumenical affairs, Dr. Outler read the Scriptures and Pope Paul VI preached the homily at an interfaith service at the close of the Vatican Council.

In March, he received an honorary doctor of law degree from the University of Notre Dame and participated in an international conference on the theological issues of Vatican II.

A native of Thomasville, Ga. he studied at Wofford College, Emory University and Yale, where he received his Ph.D. in 1938. He taught theology at Duke and Yale and has been professor of theology at Southern Methodist since 1951.

Dr. Outler was a delegate of the Methodist Church to the Third World Council on Faith and Order at Lund, Sweden, in 1952 and was also a delegate at New Delhi in 1962. He was vice chairman of the Fourth World Council on Faith and Order at Montreal 1963.

He is the author of “College Faculties and Religion,” “Psychotherapy and the Christian Message,” and “The Christian Tradition and the Unity We Week.”