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The misnomer is that laicization strips away priesthood; all it really does it reduces a man to the lay state in terms of his activity.— WordPress.com News
The canon law is a bit peculiar about this because laicization now requires the determination that the man should never have been ordained.— WordPress.com News
A Path from Rome, in which he describes his life from childhood, through becoming a Catholic priest, to the seeking and granting of laicization.— Planet Atheism
It did not even occur to them to remember how long ago and by what hands the column of the Grand Army was pulled down in the very heart of Paris While the force of Philistine fatuity can no further go than it has gone in the 'laicization' of the home of Jeanne d'Arc, I ought to say that the actual keeper of the place seemed to me to be a decent sort of fellow, not wholly destitute of respect for its traditions and its significance.— France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889
In 1885 it sent up a solid Republican Deputation, including M. Méline, who was so conspicuous in 1889 in the matter of General Boulanger and M. Jules Ferry, the standard-bearer of 'laicization' and irreligion.— France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889

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