How To Use Laity In A Sentence
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With other controversial issues such as slavery and women's ordination, laity and clergy could find Bible verses to help Spirit-led changes.
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The Church and the laity were increasingly active in charity work.
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Now the three swords, now and anciently borne before the king at his coronation, were known as the sword of the clergy, the sword of the laity, and the third (curtana), which has no point, the sword of mercy.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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The sacerdotal role of the Christian laity, whose spiritual sacrifice and virtuous life makes a dwelling place for the Holy Spirit, is placed in complete opposition to the formal procedures of the Roman clergy.
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Another aspect of the plan is to make the church, including the laity, more outward-looking and able to engage in evangelism.
Diocese of BC: 10 second evangelism training « Anglican Samizdat
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The choices they made also illustrate the divisions within the clergy and the gap between Loyalist clergy and revolutionary laity.
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In the synods held under St. Cyprian, to deal with the lapsed, and in the synod of 256, which considered the question of re-baptism, there were present not only the bishops, but many priests and deacons, and even a very large representation of the laity.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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It recognizes the validity of all Evangelical orders, confirmed in the laying on of hands of the presbytery; and holds communion with, and exchanges pulpits with, all Evangelical Protestant Churches, and receives from them by letters dimissory, clergy and laity without reordination or reconfirmation, and dismisses to them, as to parishes in her own communion.
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Liturgical worship was increasingly performed by clergy, with the cantors, for the laity; and the clergy were more heard than seen.
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He conferred on it a kind of inquisitorial and censorial powers even over the laity, and directed it to inquire into all matters of conscience; into all conduct which had given scandal; into all actions which, though they escaped the law, might appear contrary to good morals.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary
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In the West the taking of usury was prohibited to both the clergy and the laity in the ninth century, and the sanctions against usurers were intensified by a series of conciliar decrees between 1179 and 1311.
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It followed that the distinction between clergy and laity could no longer be that the former had "ministries" while the latter did not.
Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
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Sexual abuse committed by Catholic priests is more newsworthy, and less excusable in the aggregate, than abuse committed by relatives, clergy of other religious bodies, or teachers in public schools, because Catholic priests have been ontically configured by ordination to be "other Christs" in a way in which the Catholic laity, Protestant clergy, and of course non-Christians are not.
The sex-abuse scandal in the Church: five years on
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Rome's theory of concomitancy of the blood with the body, the excuse for giving only the bread to the laity, falls to the ground.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Despite the presence of more than five dozen priests, it was the laity and the celebrants who distributed Communion.
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The choices they made also illustrate the divisions within the clergy and the gap between Loyalist clergy and revolutionary laity.
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If society at large became more literate then the clergy could more readily be recruited from the laity; they did not have to remain what they had come close to being, a hereditary caste.
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Authority in the church became more centralized, though the power of the laity at local level was greater than in other Methodist connexions.
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This vineyard He committed to husbandmen, that is, to the people that was before us, both priests and laity, and went into a far country, by His departure giving opportunity to the husbandmen.
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
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The Church and the laity were increasingly active in charity work.
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Artists and journalists are not so dependent upon their colleagues' approval but can appeal directly to the laity.
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It remains true, however, that although the episcopal and presbyteral (parochial) schools thus contributed to the education of the laity, the chief portion of the burden of lay education in the early Middle Ages was borne by the monasteries.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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Then, as now, the laity did not elect the cardinals or play even a limited role in their selection.
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Nevertheless, priests and laity restored the mass at the mere breath of royal suggestion.
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Their members took the traditional monastic vows, but devoted their lives to pastoral work, aiming to produce a well-instructed and devout laity.
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Clergy and laity alike are divided in their views.
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We need a learned clergy and a learned laity to meet the demands and challenges of local church and community life and of being God's people in the world.
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The government's intention in summoning the conference, with a predetermined verdict in favour of the Catholics, was to justify a subsequent policy of steady pressure on the Donatist laity.
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He was joined by a great contingent of the local faithful and laity, all generously lending themselves to this historic afternoon in Loughglynn.
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This teaching was a boon to the married laity, but it sowed confusion among priests.
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In a church rich with religious orders, it is peculiar for someone to write as if the Roman clergy and laity did not know the difference.
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The Church and the laity were increasingly active in charity work.
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In this list, the Greeks appear to have exceeded the real numbers of the clergy and laity which afterwards attended the emperor and patriarch, but which are not clearly specified by the great ecclesiarch.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6
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Dr Ryan has emphasised throughout his period as bishop the importance of involving the laity in parish and church affairs.
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Bishops enjoy almost absolute power, and the laity have no means of rejecting a candidate, no matter how unsuitable.
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The choices they made also illustrate the divisions within the clergy and the gap between Loyalist clergy and revolutionary laity.
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Moreover, we must judge these accounts by the age in which they were produced, -- an age when the mental food of the pious laity was the life of St. Francis with his five wounds and blasphemous "conformities" to the life of our Lord, and other works of a similar nature.
The History and Life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler with Twenty-Five of his Sermons
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Before 1950, the laity had little opportunity to make the Exercises, which were typically given during a thirty-day silent retreat.
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It was observed too, that while some religious congregations even-handedly promoted vocations to the vowed life and the laity, this was not universal.
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The conversation usually revolves around questions about episcopal leadership and the role of the laity.
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As repeated several times in written GLN statements prior to the protest, a handbill distributed at the protest, and in our public comments during the course of the protest, our protest was against the leadership of the Catholic church and not the Catholic laity, a majority of whom support equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.
Andy Thayer: A Gay Protester Responds to Cardinal George's Criticism
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Another treatment which has some merit, and which has long enjoyed a certain vogue among both medical men and the laity, is a combination of equal parts of lime-water with either olive or linseed oil; this is called carron oil and is applied in the same way as the picric acid solution.
Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene
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Some of our parishes are dull little affairs presided over by a fearful clergy and laity.
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It followed that the distinction between clergy and laity could no longer be that the former had "ministries" while the latter did not.
Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
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With time, the visible role of laity in every aspect of church life may have a significant effect on how the hierarchy, as well as those in the pews, think about the nature of authority in the church.
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The courts themselves work as a goad, driving laity and leadership alike.
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Later, however, in the Latin Church the office of ostiary universally remained only one of the degrees of ordination and the actual work of the ostiary was transferred to the laity,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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In Communist times, Catholic clergy and laity who did not convert to Orthodoxy were imprisoned in labor camps and often murdered.
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Insert your swazzle and repeat after me: "That's the way to do it!" posted by K. A. Laity at
Archive 2006-04-01
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The moderator challenged the audience: ‘What are you - bishops, priests, laity - afraid of about dialogue?’
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There are processions of red and yellow lamas; every act in trade, agriculture, and social life needs the sanction of sacerdotalism; whatever exists of wealth is in the gonpos, which also have a monopoly of learning, and 11,000 monks closely linked with the laity, yet ruling all affairs of life and death and beyond death, are all connected by education, tradition, and authority with
Among the Tibetans
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He was, to be sure, was a loose cannon given to pinheaded statements urging laity to not go to Mass.
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By 1964, the seemingly quiescent laity had acquired a public voice.
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The pope in his distinguishing robe and tiara carries a monstrance containing the holy Eucharist, as clerics process before him and the laity behind.
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Much the same as Pius X, he spurred on the laity through the apostolate of Catholic Action, which he had reorganized in 1923 and purged of party intrigue.
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Clergy and laity in the western U.S. had sought clarity on the issue.
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The monk or nun incumbents will probably engage in daily devotions and practices, as well as giving teachings, blessings and ceremonies for the laity.
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Clergy and laity had to be interdependent, but by the early 19th cent. both groups were asserting their rights and dignities.
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No doubt the practice of keeping xerophagy during these seasons originated in monasteries and thence passed to the laity.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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According to Hamburger, the devotional image develops in order to record and provoke the visionary experience cultivated by the nuns and, to a point, imitated by the laity.
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Further, the council called on the entire church to evangelize the modern world through renewal of the laity's role.
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There is a mosaic in Ravenna portraying saints, martyrs, hierarchs, and faithful laity, each of them holding a crown that they will place at the feet of Christ.
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FROM OVID. tjy retous churl, of unforgiving kind aider to the bloody prieft refign'd: iger was no plea; for that (he dy'd» it came next in order, to be tiy'd: it had cropt the tendrils of the viner since laity and clergy join, me had loft his profit, one his wine* is at leaft, fome (hadow of offence: ep was facrinVd on no pretence,,
The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson
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Monasteries were foremost among the great landowners because, as in western Europe, they received donations and bequests from the laity.
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Groups of clergy and laity are forming to ‘take back the church’ and to democratize it.
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The Eucharist in particular was transformed from a celebration whose origins in a shared meal were still recognizable into a hieratic pageant at which the laity were increasingly spectators rather than active participants.
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Many practices that were part of pre-Vatican II Roman Catholicism, such as communion in one kind for the laity and eastward-facing celebrations, have not died out, as Anglicans sometimes think.
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They hope to raise enough support to force the issue when Greek Orthodox clergy and laity convene next year in Los Angeles.
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Participation was also an issue which concerned the Liturgical movement, and Pius XII praised those who sought to promote more engagement on the part of the laity with chant, dialogue responses, and use of missals.
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Phillips Brooks, we may remember, described the bishop's role as securing for the presbyter the conditions of peaceful and effective labor, backed by a large-minded laity.
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But the laity's judgement of its pastors has not always coincided with the priorities of bishops and archdeacons and may not have done so in this period.
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To confiscate this property would be to spoliate the laity.
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The path to the open altar area, well below the floor levels of the side ambulatories, leads downward, so that pews around the altar are higher, subverting the convention of an elevated chancel segregated from the laity.
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The laity frequently had to compete for this space with bishops and abbots, who surprisingly often requested burial in the same spot instead of within the choir.
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The papal nuncio described the Tablet as ‘a living laboratory of the marvelous reality that is the prophetic mission of the laity in the Church.’
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In the present restorationist situation in the church, many leaders are satisfied with the middle-aged vocation with a biretta on his head, an ample cassock, and a conviction that he must teach the laity to obey him.
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The pope in his distinguishing robe and tiara carries a monstrance containing the holy Eucharist, as clerics process before him and the laity behind.
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The laity could only stand and watch from the nave while the sacred rites were being performed.
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The queen, whose dread and hatred of the puritans augmented with the severities which she exercised against them, had conceived a violent aversion to certain meetings called prophesyings, at this time held by the clergy for the purpose of exercising their younger members in expounding the Scriptures, and at which the laity had begun to attend as auditors in great numbers and with much interest.
Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
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First, in light of the directive concerning Prayer Book services generally, the reference to ‘the people’ may be taken to signal the order of laity as distinct from the diaconal and priestly orders which are also alluded to.
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To none of these other forms, however, is attached the same degree of seriousness by the laity as they attach unjustly to nosophobia.
The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies
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The theatre and paraphernalia of church ritual were rejected, as was the distinction between clergy and laity.
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A special Commission is appointed, representing clergy, bishops, laity and a representative of the Church overseas; the Prime Minister appoints the chairman.
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Still, some way must be found for the clergy and laity of the world to be involved in the choice.
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The Church and the laity were increasingly active in charity work.
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The laity they mistaught for all those long years know only what they were mistaught.
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Conservative clergy and laity in two dioceses protested the conduct of two bishops who were regarded as friends of the republican government.
Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the Enlightenment to the Great War
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In spite of these quibbles, Lancaster's book should prove a valuable resource to ministers and serious laity who are willing to grapple with issues of biblical authority.
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The aims of this new movement were in the first instance a restoration of the old discipline, of true renunciation and piety in the monasteries themselves; but later, first, a subjection of the secular clergy to the regulars, and, secondly, the dominion of the whole spiritualty, as regulated by the monks, over the laity — princes and nations alike.
Monasticism: Its Ideals and History and The Confessions of St. Augustine
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The pope is the bishop of Rome and was once elected by the clergy and laity of the city.
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In many cases it is being done by co-opting both the clergy and the laity, giving them no alternative except to acquiesce.
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He was convinced that the spiritual health of the laity would be helped by supplementing the Latin liturgy with meetings at which religious matters would be expounded in the vernacular and in which the congregation would take part.
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Its work provides a model for future governance of the church, one in which the hierarchy will not only listen to, but also trust, the laity.
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That these various provisions for the education not only of the clergy but also of the laity -- monastic schools, cathedral schools, canonicate schools, chantry schools, guild schools, hospital schools, city schools, and special educational institutions -- met the educational needs of the times, and were adequate as far as the circumstances of the times would allow, is the verdict of all historians who view without prejudice the educational career of the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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COLLIER: Ramparts really began in 1964 as a liberal Catholic quarterly, a magazine of the Catholic laity, and by 1966, 1967 had shed that identity and became a kind of interoffice memorandum of the new left.
The Roosevelts: An American Saga
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The distinct specification of the bread and the wine disproves the Romish doctrine of concomitancy, and exclusion of the laity from the cup.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The deliverance ministry has grown considerably in England, in recent decades, both among laity (as in the deliverance ministry support group I belong to, in my diocese) and among clergy (dioceses now have deliverance teams, and deliverance training, I understand, is returning to ordinand training programmes).
Devilish deception « Anglican Samizdat
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Among regular clergy, the orders of friars retained a slightly double-edged esteem among the laity as skilled confessors and dramatic preachers.
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She was a lady of generosity, love and friendship and of great intellectual ability and laity.
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So widespread is the understanding that, when a priest or bishop's adultery or fornication comes to light, clergy and laity are equally scandalized.
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The laity, however, reserved their deepest respect for the celibate, highly-educated Franciscan friars.
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Artists and journalists are not so dependent upon their colleagues' approval but can appeal directly to the laity.
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But this will have to be a slow, incremental, bottom-up process of forming the Catholic laity spiritually and humanly.
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It must become a studied challenge for theologians, denominational officials, and laity, as well as pastors.
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I fear the day when the laity selects the bishop of each diocese.
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Clericalism magnifies the importance of the hierarchy, but denies the importance of the laity.
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Thus monks and nuns can transmit something of the tranquillity of their way of life when chanting for the laity: a kind of broadcast meditation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Each will create a blurring of the boundaries between clergy and laity.
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In other words, churches had been razed on the basis of an untruth, while the laity - who generally opposed changes mandated by clerical autocrats - were expected to foot the bill.
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Until 1059 Popes were elected not by cardinals but by the clergy and laity of the diocese of Rome.
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He had ignited a controversy over the Eucharist, claiming the right for the laity to receive both the bread and the wine at Mass.
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The pervasiveness of the Low Mass in the preconciliar times led to the impression that the laity are excluded (I know this is wrong but that's the impression) and it also led to "four-hymn sandwich" and prepared the ground for some of the biggest liturgical problems we have today.
Bring Back the High Mass (to regular parishes)
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People - laity and clergy - want to have a voice in who leads their diocese and how that leader functions.
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The new proposals affect both clergy and laity.
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They followed no definite ecclesiastico-political programme, but directed their attacks principally against individual offences such as simony, marriage of the clergy, and the uncanonical marriage of the laity.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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I am rather asserting that the laity feels that church leadership does not know what it is talking about.
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There were inevitably certain restrictions upon clergy which were not necessarily incumbent upon laity, and one such restriction was the possibility of living in a sexually active homophile relationship.
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I am rather asserting that the laity feels that church leadership does not know what it is talking about.
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Further, the council called on the entire church to evangelize the modern world through renewal of the laity's role.
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She was a lady of generosity, love and friendship and of great intellectual ability and laity.
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The bishops - together with the laity and clergy - should be part of the creation of a healthy, revitalized church.
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Pastor and staff must support and uphold their responsibilities to the laity of the church.
Christianity Today
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The purpose of these scriptures is to regulate in all detail the life within the community of monks and nuns as well as their relationship with the laity.
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He was delated to Rome for his writings on the laity and the shadow of suspicion was not lifted until he was made cardinal in 1878.
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Yet, the tireless efforts of Dr. Johnson and other churchmen clergy and laity -- to relieve the suffering in Biafra is evidence enough of the primary and essential role of the church: the maintenance of the highest standard of human concern.
Nigeria-Biafra Tragedy: Any Hope?
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Judge Laity in England described the group as ‘corrupt, sinister and dangerous’.
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For more information on NFP classes, call the archdiocesan Office for Family, Laity, Youth and Young Adults at 651 291-4489.
Natural family planning classes offered in August
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Today divorced and remarried clergy and laity serve the church faithfully as full partners.
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For the sake of successful cooperation the respective responsibilities of clergy and laity must be clearly demarcated.
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For all clergy and laity who wish to talk about ‘the church in exile,’ this book is a must read.
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In times of crisis, leaders are needed who can inspire both clergy and laity.
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Synod was convened at Inis Patraic by Mael Maedoc, coarb of Patrick, at which were present fifteen bishops and two hundred priests, to establish rules and morals for all, both laity and clergy; and Mael
St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh
