About 8% of completed fields need clerical intervention.
They resisted royal interference in clerical appointments, lay misappropriation of church lands and revenues, and legal restrictions on communication between the pope and local churches.
A conservative reaction to the 1848 revolutions, it provided complete freedom from civil interference for the church, clerical control over education policy, and exceptional consideration for Catholic interests in all matters pertaining to religion.
Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who delivered a landmark speech last year denouncing Vatican interference in investigations into clerical sexual abuse, said the office he held precluded him from calling for the cardinal's resignation, but on Wednesday he said the primate should "reflect" on the contents of the BBC program.
Even without foreign interference, elections in recent years have been marred by software glitches, clerical errors, and machine failures that have prevented people from voting, caused long lines at polling places, and prompted some voters to give up and walk away.
Biographer Violet Rowe writes that "Vane's guiding principles in religious policy seem to have been two: a rooted distrust of clerical power, whether of bishops or presbyters, and a belief that the State should abstain from interference in church matters altogether".
Each of the challenges Rouhani cites at the outset of his piece: "terrorism, extremism, foreign military interference, drug trafficking, cybercrime, and cultural encroachment" sound like a list of grievances, when in fact the clerical regime currently ruling Iran has been credibly and repeatedly charged with perpetrating each of these misdeeds over the past three decades.
Computers displaced clerical workers.
"Nonphysical interference?
