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defrock
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Until queer-tolerant bishops face up to the problem, and deal with it correctly--by not accepting queers into seminaries, and by defrocking those who persist in their perversion--St.
From M. J. Ferrari, M.D., re clergy and homosexuality. (Letters to ... by Catholic Insight
He had visited Taylor in jail and received the disgraced clergyman's agreement to the defrocking, which also had to be sanctioned by the Pope.
Sex abuse priest is defrocked by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
Defrocking can take several years as it involves ratification by the Pope.
Action they could have undertaken by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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