For the sake of successful cooperation the respective responsibilities of clergy and laity must be clearly demarcated. |
Some of our parishes are dull little affairs presided over by a fearful clergy and laity. |
Still, some way must be found for the clergy and laity of the world to be involved in the choice. |
In a church rich with religious orders, it is peculiar for someone to write as if the Roman clergy and laity did not know the difference. |
Today divorced and remarried clergy and laity serve the church faithfully as full partners. |
In occasional diocesan synods, they harangued their clergy and issued reforming regulations. |