During his administration, clerics of servile origin steadily gained in status, now called ministerialis rather than servitor.
Clerics and government officials threatened him with execution for blasphemy.
After promising for weeks that he was making progress on assembling a decency panel to review art in publicly financed museums, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has come up with a list that includes members of his administration, friendly clerics and his own divorce lawyer, Raoul Felder.
Mr. Giuliani attended a dinner organized by the Congress of Racial Equality last night, and he presided over a muted prayer breakfast at Gracie Mansion with black clerics, black Republican leaders and administration officials, where he spoke briefly, and reverentially, about Dr. King.
The butler's leaked documents told of corruption in the Vatican, infighting over the running of its scandal-mired bank, and painted a picture of an administration where some clerics were more interested in their careers than serving the pope.
Administrators and clerics at Al-Azhar, which is Sunni Islam's highest seat of learning, have generally taken an accommodating stance toward the military-backed interim government that supplanted Morsi's administration.
The judiciary council that used to act as the highest court and was controlled by the most reactionary clerics in the kingdom, has been relegated to administration.
The word of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most influential of the Iraqi Shiite clerics, ultimately forced both the council and the Bush administration to change course on Iraqi sovereignty last month.
He also gained sympathy from government officials and Sunni clerics.
Various Salafist clerics have vowed to support Morsi's government.
