Lay cardinal | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-11-10

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Lay cardinal

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A lay cardinal was  a cardinal in the College of Cardinals of the Catholic Church who was a lay person, that is, who had never have been given major orders through ordainstion as a deacon, priest, or bishop.
Properly speaking these cardinals were not laymen, since they were all given what was called first tonsure, which at that time made them clerics and no lon laymen. They were also given minor orders, which were no obstacle to marrying or to living in a marriage previously contracted. The freedom to marry and to live in marriage is likely the reason that cardinals who were not in major orders were popularly, though inaccurately, referred to as lay cardinals.