priestless

In my diocese we are being prepared for priestless parishes.

Stirring talk by Bishop O'Donoghue 2009

A closer look at priestless parishes, however, reveals that while these parishes are low on priests they are high on community, volunteer participation, and competent, professional lay leadership.

O Father, Where Art Thou? Argent 2006

In those days, in such cases, men did not think of germs and infections, but of sins, and it seemed to him that the reason of this affliction must he in the negligence of these priestless immigrants to set up a shrine so soon as they entered the valley.

The Door in the Wall, and other stories Herbert George 2006

At first glance, one might pity St. Augustine Parish and its 3,000 companion "priestless parishes" that stretch from Montana to Mississippi, most heavily concentrated in the rural South and Midwest.

O Father, Where Art Thou? Argent 2006

These "Bespopoftsi," or priestless people, were unable to marry; and to this -- in a land where the economic unit, is not man, but man and wife, where the ties of family life are so strong -- was due their further splitting.

Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

These various divisions of the priestless are again divided into smaller ones, like many of the strange sects in England and America, so that it is almost impossible to follow them.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

In those days, in such cases, men did not think of germs and infections, but of sins, and it seemed to him that the reason of this affliction must he in the negligence of these priestless immigrants to set up a shrine so soon as they entered the valley.

The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories Herbert George 1911

In those days, in such cases, men did not think of germs and infections but of sins; and it seemed to him that the reason of this affliction must lie in the negligence of these priestless immigrants to set up a shrine so soon as they entered the valley.

The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories 1906

In those days, in such cases, men did not think of germs and infections, but of sins, and it seemed to him that the reason of this affliction must he in the negligence of these priestless immigrants to set up a shrine so soon as they entered the valley.

The Door in the Wall and Other Stories 1906

The cause of the hostility is not stated, but it seems to be directed simply against the very existence of a professional and firmly organised clergy, and to proceed from laymen who hold fast by the rights of the old priestless days.

Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881