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They’re defrocking the Mets down to their vagabond shoes that are longing to ... oh, forget it, one shouldn’t need to crib from a corny song to describe what is happening here.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2024

“It’s like the defrocking of the Wizard of Oz.”

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2023

After the Vatican investigation of Ricard, Pope Francis could discipline him either by sentencing him to a life of prayer and penitence in isolation or go as far as defrocking him.

From Reuters • Nov. 11, 2022

The AP last year reported that Brignac, despite his supposed defrocking, also maintained access to schoolchildren and held leadership roles as recently as 2018 in the Knights of Columbus.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2020

The church courts had characteristically punished with a fine or a penance, and at most defrocking, and never imposed a death penalty, even for murder.

From Our Legal Heritage by Reilly, S. A.