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'This is a decree of laicisation.

As laicisation has forced religion from community to private practice, we should not be surprised that so few people know how to mourn together and share common griefs.

It was the economic rationality of the market and the scientific rationality of research and technology that facilitated the process of laicisation.

A priest may also seek laicisation voluntarily because he disagrees with major policies or doctrines of the church and wishes to dissociate himself from those policies.

Although 'laicisation' is a process that has become universal in the Western world, it is in North America where it is at its most advanced.

According to the Vatican, it seems Martin was not only released from religious vows but also his vows from "priestly ordination" (which means laicisation).

To recapitulate, the essential feature of the most important aspect of secularisation, laicisation, is that Christian authority and institutional control have been virtually removed from modern life.

He virtually stopped the liberal laicisation of problem priests policy of Pope Paul VI, which inadvertently may have contributed to problems in the USA.

I think we need to say more about this, because while it is related to secularisation and is partly a direct result of laicisation, there is more to it than that.

At the time of his appointment to the NIHRC he had not yet completed the process of laicisation, but had applied for it, and has now been laicised.

These included the flood of priests demanding laicisation and the laity's widespread use of contraception, despite the ban reiterated by Paul VI's 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae.

A simpler way of looking at laicisation might be to say that institutional Christianity has lost some of its functions: most education passes from church to state; so too do medicine, welfare and human counselling.

A more important Christian observation is to note that laicisation has meant that as institutional Christianity has been forced out of the control box of the modernity machine it has lost its authority.

In the United States, however, it is precisely because churches are so full, and wealthy, that it is not easy to see that in fact secularisation in the form of 'laicisation' has gripped the church by the throat.

He had requested laicization in order to run for office.

After laicization, he worked as an editor, journalist and Vaticanologist.

Finally, given the nature of the priesthood, laicization is an extreme remedy.

Was he removed from the priesthood or did he seek laicization?

The laicization of bishops, by dismissal or voluntarily, is very rare, although it has happened a few times.

However, after Lugo won the presidential election, the Church granted his laicization.

"I infer that you don't accept the laicization."

The situation was ripe for a state takeover and laicization of schooling, which reflected the prevailing at that time European trends.

Voluntary requests are by far the most common means of laicization, and the most common reason is to marry.

Delaying laicization had nothing to do with allowing him to continue exercising the ministry, from which he had already been suspended.

They don't go as far as we do, because my approach has always been to ask for laicization [leaving the priesthood].

He was totally unprepared for it, that he sign a paper requesting laicization, and he would not.

All sacred actions of a former clergyman are normally considered invalid (beginning from the time of laicization).

In 2005, Bishop Fernando Lugo requested laicization to run for office.

Laicization removes the ordained status completely.

Laicization as an ecclesiastical punishment may carry with it the excommunication of the former cleric from the church for a certain period, or indefinitely.

The proposed guidelines call for the laicization of any priest who has committed more than one act of abuse of a minor in the past.

Bishop Lugo requested laicization in 2005 to allow him to run for President of Paraguay.

Laicization would have released Murphy from nearly all obligations of priesthood, including the obligation to perform any penance imposed by his bishop.

The Vatican responded that "...the letter followed a request from the priest himself for laicization, supported by the bishop.

Where there is indication of incorrigibility, because of the tremendous scandal given, I would most earnestly recommend total laicization."

Last June, he requested what is known as laicization when church officials sought to discipline him under new guidelines for punishing priests who are guilty of abuse.

Building on Habermas, Broman argues that the Enlightenment was a movement of intellectual transparency and laicization.

Characteristic laicization of life during Renaissance and Reformation resulted in only minor development in sacral architecture.

Subsequently, following his laicization, he maintained his international reputation for his civil commitment and his studies on peace research and education.