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laicize
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la·i·cize  (l-sz)
tr.v. la·i·cized, la·i·ciz·ing, la·i·ciz·es
1. To free from ecclesiastical control; give over to laypeople.
2. To change to lay status; secularize.
lai·ci·zation (-s-zshn) n.
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Verb1.laicize - reduce to lay status; "laicize the parochial schools"
laicise
alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
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There is no stigma attached to laicization in such cases; a priest who marries after the death of his wife is free to stay as a lay member in the parish he formerly served, and is often deeply involved in its life.
Celibacy & the future of the priesthood: priests should be married by Garvey, John / Commonweal
In 2002, he was a member of the United States-Vatican commission that made final revisions to the norms, which laid out a strict policy on priestly sex abuse and provided for removal from ministry or laicization of priests who have sexually abused minors.
Archbishop Levada gets vacated job at CDF by Catholic Insight
1:367), this ordination would not have prevented his subsequent laicization.
Raphael's Portrait Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de' Medici and Luigi ... by Minnich, Nelson H. / Renaissance Quarterly
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