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- v. Present participle of laicize.
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Examples
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M. Ferry's bill making primary education obligatory, and 'laicizing' that education, finally became law on July
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Anne Burke, an Illinois judge who served from 2002 to 2005 on the National Review Board, an advisory panel established by U.S. bishops to monitor their response to the scandal, supports laicizing perpetrators as a matter of justice.
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Some Catholics say laicizing a perpetrator, which only the Vatican can do, is just and fair — an unambiguous verdict that validates victims and punishes child molesters with the clerical equivalent of the death penalty.
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But laicizing a priest can take years, while a local bishop can swiftly yank perpetrators from working with children and continue to keep tabs on them.
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The process of laicizing or otherwise disciplining pedophile priests became much speedier after 2001, when Pope John Paul II gave Ratzinger's office jurisdiction over all cases of clerical sex abuse.
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REESE: That's a very good argument that has been made for not laicizing them.
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Franco-Prussian war, in consequence of the policy, even then inaugurated in some of France's colonies, of laicizing the schools.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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The difficulty of forming a body of female lay teachers impeded the process of laicizing the public schools for girls, but this, too, has been complete since 1906, except in some few communes, where it is to be effected before the year 1913.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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M. Marcel Charlot, in 1906, and M. Aulard, in 1907, the one in the name of the State, the other in the interest of la Mission Laïque, made a critical study of our religious schools in the east, and contributed to the laicizing movement which, if successful, would mean the dissolution of France's religious clientèle in the East and a lessening of French political influence.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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St. Francis of Assisi in 1223 originated the crib of today by laicizing a hitherto ecclesiastical custom, henceforward extra-liturgical and popular.
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