For most people, religion has ceased to be a matter of belonging to a clerically led community, affirming unchanging dogma, participating in prescribed rituals, and holding conservative social attitudes. |
Escriva grew up in a clerically top-heavy society, where lay people were largely passive in the Church. |
A table of very smooth, middle-aged vicars so clerically attired that you'd swear they were in fancy dress. |
Dance, other than in its folk expressions, was sternly frowned upon in the clerically dominated Québec of his youth. |
There are also some key differences in the way the P-8 is flown and clerically employed. |
They doggedly believe that EC should just clerically run the elections which must be ordered by them, for their benefit, at their convenience. |