laicize the parochial schools. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object), : to laicize a school; to laicize the office of headmaster. From Dictionary.com.
Only the other day the local authorities were instigated, I know not by whom -- perhaps by the friends of M. Ferry at St. - Dié, which is not very far off -- to "laicize" instruction in Domrémy. From Wordnik.com. [France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889] Reference
( "Emblematic of this anticlerical mindset was the tendency to" laicize "the names of locations with two words of religious significance, by contracting them into one. From Wordnik.com. [Cristero Rebellion: part 1 - toward the abyss] Reference
Teresa Kettelkamp, a former Illinois police colonel and executive director of the U.S. bishops 'Secretariat for Children and Young People, said to laicize or not is a tough call and dioceses are feeling their way through the issue. From Wordnik.com. [Abusive priests: To defrock or not? U.S. Catholics debate] Reference
• Had Oakland's Bishop John Cummins sought to laicize Kiesle as punishment for his misconduct?. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
So even if they laicize him, he's still going to be perfectly capable of selling valid absolutions over eBay. From Wordnik.com. [Front page feed] Reference
To laicize, then, is to give this lay character to whatever had not previously had it — or, at least, not entirely. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
After his criminal case, Kiesle asked the Vatican to laicize him in a petition that was supported by diocese officials. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
The diocese has contacted the Vatican to begin the process to laicize, or defrock, Bonilla, spokesman Matthew Kerr said. From Wordnik.com. [Columnist: Keith Groller] Reference
After thirty years in the diocese of San Pedro he retired, asked the Vatican to laicize him, he was refused, once a bishop always a bishop they said. From Wordnik.com. [PinoyPress] Reference
Lugo won the presidential election in April 2008, but the Vatican did not laicize him until the end of July 2008, just two weeks before his inauguration. From Wordnik.com. [National Catholic Reporter] Reference
But officials in that office, citing the priest's advanced age and ill health, didn't approve a canonical trial to laicize him, though he remained banned from ministry. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
But in recent times, especially in France, the word lay has assumed a decidedly anti-clerical and even anti-religious meaning, which has extended also to the derivatives laicize and laicization. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
Let the clergy marry in France, laicize all schools, alike for rich and poor, and what may be called the æsthetic side of domestic economy, to say nothing of hygiene, would soon spread to the remotest corners of the country. From Wordnik.com. [The Roof of France] Reference
In building a case to laicize Kiesle, the Rev. George Mockel of the Oakland Diocese asked priests who had worked with Kiesle to share their opinions of his time in seminary and work in the priesthood after being ordained in 1972. From Wordnik.com. [MercedSun-Star.com: front] Reference
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