laicize
Americanverb (used with object)
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The Vatican can forcibly laicize priests, or defrock them, as a punishment for such crimes as clergy sexual abuse.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2022
After the Dallas Charter came a rush to laicize, resulting in more than 220 of the priests researched by the AP being laicized between 2004 and 2010.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 4, 2019
“If we laicize them or if we let them walk away … no one is watching them,” she said.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 4, 2019
Sedlmayer’s suit was later dismissed, a move his attorney, Evan Goldman, said was mutually agreed to because the diocese threatened to laicize Sedlmayer if he didn’t agree.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2019
Only the other day the local authorities were instigated, I know not by whom—perhaps by the friends of M. Ferry at St.-Dié, which is not very far off—to "laicize" instruction in Domrémy.
From France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by Hurlbert, William Henry
He’s the highest ranking member of the church known to have been laicized.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2023
After the Dallas Charter came a rush to laicize, resulting in more than 220 of the priests researched by the AP being laicized between 2004 and 2010.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 4, 2019
“We do talk about situations where these men are being laicized and what happens to them. And our canon lawyers are quick to say there is no purview to monitor them.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 3, 2019
Sekielski, the director, has been taken aback by the response, which has included new investigations and at least one priest asking to be laicized.
From Fox News ● May 25, 2019
The other laicized priest, Bishop Fernandez, was 42 when he became the bishop of Iquique.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2018
Experts say diocesan legal officials like laicizing clerics because it relieves the organization of future liability.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2019
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