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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
laicize . - adjective
freed fromecclesiastical control - adjective
secularized
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Examples
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Inspectors-General, and, in short, 'laicized' public education in France effectually as a machine to be controlled by the Imperial Government.
France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 William Henry Hurlbert 1861
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I have nothing to add except good f***ing riddance, and I hope he's laicized aka defrocked.
Priest gets max. 7 yrs for possessing child porn Suzanne 2006
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What I don't understand is why Cutie did not ask to be "laicized" and excused from his vows so that he could marry the woman.
"Padre Oprah" (aka, Fr. Cutie) is leaving the Catholic Church... 2009
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So it is usual to designate as "laicized" any institution withdrawn from the influence of ecclesiastical or religious authority, or from which the priest and his ministry have been excluded.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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And, a priest who has been dismissed from the clerical state, or "laicized", can still hear a valid confession in time of desperate need.)
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One involved a Wisconsin priest, never laicized, accused of molesting as many as 200 deaf boys.
Abusive priests: To defrock or not? U.S. Catholics debate 2010
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However, it's impossible to get a full picture because the Vatican does not release data on the number of priests laicized for child sexual abuse.
Abusive priests: To defrock or not? U.S. Catholics debate 2010
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He was laicized, voluntarily, because he wanted to run for political office (and in the event, run for office), but once a priest, always a priest.
Matthew Yglesias » Did Haiti Form a Pact With the Devil? 2010
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Without his compliance, a second warning will be issued, followed by the Maryknolls' request to Rome that Bourgeois be dismissed from the order and "laicized," or defrocked after 38 years as priest, Virgintino said.
Catholic priest who backs ordaining women faces expulsion 2011
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Without his compliance, a second warning will be issued, followed by the Maryknolls' request to Rome that Bourgeois be dismissed from the order and "laicized," or defrocked after 38 years as priest, Virgintino said.
Catholic priest who backs ordaining women faces expulsion 2011
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In the canon law of the Catholic Church, the loss of the clerical state (commonly referred to as laicization or laicisation) is the removal of a bishop, priest or deacon from the status of being a member of the clergy.
June 15, 2019