Assertion: priest | /r/HasProperty | dismissed
Facets:
value: from the clerical state
type: LOCATION
value: according to a canonist
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Why aren’t all the priests in these cases being dismissed from the clerical state, or “defrocked”?
text: When a priest loses his clerical state, either because he requested it or because it was taken from him, he is “‘dismissed from the clerical state,’ because this is a juridical status,” Astigueta explained.
text: A priest who is dismissed from the clerical state nevertheless still bears this character; he can, for instance, still give absolution to a person in danger of death.
text: When a priest is laicized, he is dismissed from a clerical state and secularized, becoming a "layperson," according to a canonist, an expert in canon law, quoted by Catholic World Report.
text: When a priest loses his clerical state, either because he requested it or because it was taken from him, he is “‘dismissed from the clerical state,’ because this is a juridical status,” Fr.
text: Why aren’t all the priests in these cases being dismissed from the clerical state, or “defrocked”?