How To Use defrock In A Sentence
- Roy Bourgeois made the front page of this past Saturday's New York Times, and I was glad for the good news at hand: 157 priests signed a statement in support of Father Roy Bourgeois, whom the Vatican has begun to defrock. Michele Somerville: A Frock Does Not A Priest Make
- If they defrock him, they set him on a path to official or unofficial sainthood. Michele Somerville: Roy Bourgeois Detained At The Vatican For The Crime Of Primacy Of Conscience
- In other words, these birds of a feather defrock together.
- The A.P. also reported that even after the priest was finally defrocked in 1987, he continued to volunteer with children in the Oakland diocese; repeated warnings to church officials were ignored.
- The Vatican began its crusade to defrock Father Bourgeois in November of 2008 with the threat of excommunication. Michele Somerville: A Frock Does Not A Priest Make
- In line with the law he was defrocked, and the commandments plaque was removed.
- The NYT had a story the other day about a priest accused of sexually molesting teenage girls here in the US who returned to his native India where the local bishop declined to defrock him. The Volokh Conspiracy » Remarkable Window into Amnesty International’s Worldview
- This courageous stand put him at odds with the chief justice, who has since been defrocked for thumbing his nose at the federal courts.
- I hereby defrock the FF and restore the title to the Frua-bodied 1952 Ferrari 212. A Showroom of Regrets: What I Got Wrong in 2011
- The first is an internal disciplinary process in the church, which can end up with a priest being defrocked, that is, kicked out of the priest hood. CNN Transcript Aug 7, 2003
